cognominaladj.n.
/kɒɡˈnɒmɪnəl/ A. adj.
1. Having the same name or cognomen, like-named.
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the mind > language > naming > [adjective] > having the same name
homonymal1641
namesake1650
cognominal1656
homonymous1658
synonymous1734
cognominous1857
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Cognominal, that hath one and the same name or sir-name.
1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 128 Distinguished from other cognominal dedications, by the name of St. James's chapel..on the wall.
1831 T. L. Peacock Crotchet Castle ix The immortal nose..which is still resplendent over the portals of its cognominal college [Brasenose].
2. Of or pertaining to a cognomen or surname.
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the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [adjective] > relating to a surname
cognominal1659
surnominal1875
1659 J. Pearson Expos. Apostles Creed iv. 393 The second [name] Pilatus, as a cognominall addition distinguishing from the rest descending from the same Originall.
1842 W. H. Mill Observ. Applic. Pantheistic Princ. iii. 141 A cognominal epithet..of the elder son.
1866 J. B. Rose tr. Ovid Fasti i. 647 No Roman house had grade cognominal Above the Fabii; titled above all As ‘Maxima’.
One who or that which has the same name as another; a namesake. Obsolete. rare.
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the mind > language > naming > [noun] > namesake one with same name
synonymy1612
namesakea1635
cognominal1646
name-daughter1712
name-son1712
name-child1789
synonym1837
homonym1851
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xxiv. 170 The Dog [and] his cognominall or name-sake in the heavens.
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