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Roman Names

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Quid nomen tibi est?
What is your name (in Latin)?
Go to http://www.latin.org/latinname/
Type your name into the box.
Select the appropriate gender.
Click on "Find Latin Name".
If there is no Latin equivalent of your name, click on "Give me a random name."
Write it down somewhere so that you remember it. I will ask for your Latin name in future assignments. 

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What is your Latin name?

How many names did most Roman men have?

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Which of these is the informal name you would use to address a freind or relative?

agnomen

cognomen

nomen

praenomen

What does the nomen tell you?

A person's nickname for friends

A honorific name given by the state

The formal family name (gens)

A cognomen is a...

honorary name given by the state

formal name used by distant relatives

nickname

An agnomen is...

an honorary name given to a Roman because of a great achievement, usually from a military conquest

a nickname

a formal name used by distant family

the family (gens) name

Roman women were given the feminized form of their father's nomen. What name would Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus give his hypothetical daughter?

Africana

Publia

Scipiona

Cornelia