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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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Question 7
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What is your Latin name?
Question 1
1.
How many names did most Roman men have?
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4
Question 2
2.
Which of these is the informal name you would use to address a freind or relative?
agnomen
cognomen
nomen
praenomen
Question 3
3.
What does the nomen tell you?
A person's nickname for friends
A honorific name given by the state
The formal family name (gens)
Question 4
4.
A cognomen is a...
honorary name given by the state
formal name used by distant relatives
nickname
Question 5
5.
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
Question 6
6.
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
