The nomen gentilicium (or simply nomen) was a hereditary name borne by the peoples of Roman Italy and later by the citizens of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. It was originally the name of one's gens (family or clan) by patrilineal descent. However, as Rome expanded its frontiers and non-Roman peoples were progressively granted citizenship and concomitant nomen, the latter lost its value in indicating patrilineal ancestry.
For men, the nomen was the middle of the tria nomina ("three names"), after the praenomen and before the cognomen. For women, the nomen was often the only name used until the late Republic. For example, three members of gens Julia were Gaius Julius Caesar and his sisters Julia Major and Julia Minor ("Julia the elder" and "Julia the younger").
The nomengentilicium (or simply nomen) was a hereditary name borne by the peoples of Roman Italy and later by the citizens of the Roman Republic and the...
[ˈgɛnteːs]) was a family consisting of individuals who shared the same nomengentilicium and who claimed descent from a common ancestor. A branch of gens,...
hereditary. Hereditary cognomina were used to augment the second name, the nomengentilicium (the family name, or clan name), in order to identify a particular...
and designations. The most important of these names was the nomengentilicium, or simply nomen, a hereditary surname that identified a person as a member...
Marcus Tullius Cicero, where Marcus is the praenomen, Tullius the nomengentilicium, and Cicero the cognomen), back to two names, and finally one name...
Roman history. The distinguishing characteristic of a gens was the nomengentilicium, or gentile name. Every member of a gens, whether by birth or adoption...
"The Rock" Johnson. List of Roman imperial victory titles Nomengentilicium Praenomen Nomen nescio Courtesy name "agnomen". Oxford English Dictionary...
she seems to have been referred to mainly as "Livia Medullina". Her nomengentilicium Furia is not actually attested but can be assumed to have been used...
libertus owed. Following manumission, the freed slave would take on the nomengentilicium (family name) of his former master, who would adopt the freedman into...
Ummidius is a Roman nomengentilicium. Notable people with the name include: Gaius Ummidius Actius Anicetus, Roman pantomime actor Gaius Ummidius Durmius...
Antoniniana. As a consequence, many Egyptians adopted the emperor's nomengentilicium, "Aurelius" (after his imperial predecessor Marcus Aurelius) as their...
his great grandfather Lucius Sergius Plautus, and may have used his nomengentilicium Sergius as his own praenomen as a lead pipe is attested with the name...
addition to their personal names. This was the same process by which the nomengentilicium later developed throughout Italy. Aeneas reigned for thirty-one years...
tendency to use duo nomina formulae with a name in -iko on the basis of nomengentilicium, a fact noted amongst the south-western Celtici (C. Pagusicus Lucianus)...
Roman society, women are referred to by a feminized form of their nomengentilicium: thus, all the women of the Livia gens are called Livia. According...
Licinius, apparently confusing the rare praenomen with the common nomengentilicium. Diodorus, apparently unfamiliar with the name, amends it to Lucius...
group of individuals. The Romans would have regarded Silvius as a nomengentilicium, or "gentile name", inherited by everyone descended from the same...
Marcus Agrippa personally disliked being referred to by his obscure nomengentilicium Vipsanius and avoided its use. It would also have been odd to mention...
that of Trajan, but the majority of epigraphic occurrences are as a nomengentilicium. The inscriptions of the Spurinnae indicate that their favoured praenomina...
also be a gentilicium; since Romans aristocrats of the imperial era frequently had multiple nomina, it seems more likely that it was his nomen, and that...
are mentioned in inscriptions. The nomen Pontilienus appears to be formed from Pontilius, another nomengentilicium. The philologist George Davis Chase...
phrase "Sons of Bathyra" was not a patronymic, but a family name (nomengentilicium). About 100 years later, the sons of Bathyra are recorded disputing...
and their wives, Dellia Secunda and Ducellia Sabina. As he has a nomengentilicium, he must have been a freedman. The form of the inscription suggests...
Other such laws came to be known as leges Juliae after the emperor's nomengentilicium. Both for this reason and because the original language of the lex...
the time of Hadrian. The nomen Trebius was originally a common Sabellic praenomen, which came to be used as a nomengentilicium. Trebius Niger, a companion...
origin may have been lowly or from outside the Roman Empire. His nomengentilicium, "Volcacius", may be derived from the Volcae, a Celtic people. From...
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