Meaning of praenomen | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An Ancient Roman given name.
   historical
2. The throne name of a pharaoh, the fourth of the five names of the royal titulary, traditionally encircled by a cartouche and preceded by the title nswt-bjtj.
   historical
3. The genus name in a binomial scientific name.

Equivalents

Examples

“Julius Caesar's praenomen was Gaius.”

“The Romans evolved a quite different system of nomenclature, which in its classical form⟳ consisted of three names, the praenomen (e.g. Marcus), nomen (e.g. Tullius), and cognomen (e.g. Cicero), and two other designations (the name⟳ of the father and of the tribe): […]”

“Tutankhamun's praenomen or throne name⟳ was Nebkheperrure, "Lord of the forms of Ra".”

“The old explanation was that the Greeks applied the name⟳ [λαβύρινθος (labúrinthos)] to it [the Temple of Hawara] because the prenomen or "throne-name" of its builder, Amenemhat III., would have⟳ been pronounced *Nemarîᵉ, and, by a usual interchange of n with l, transliterated into Greek as Labaris or Lamaris.”

“In the name⟳ Tyrannosaurus rex, "Tyrannosaurus" is the praenomen.”

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