Lat. In the civil law. A name; the name, style, or designation of a person. Properly, the name showing to what gens or tribe he belonged, as distinguished from his own individual name, (the prceno-men,) from hls surname or family mime, (cognomen,) and from any name added by way of a descriptive title, (agnomen
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
