Praenomina in a sentence

Praenomina could still be given when necessary, and as with men's praenomina the practice survived well into imperial times, but the proliferation of personal cognomina eventually rendered women's praenomina obsolete.

But for a variety of reasons, women's praenomina became neglected over the course of Roman history, and by the end of the Republic, most women did not have or did not use praenomina.

Most praenomina had both masculine and feminine forms, and a number of praenomina common to women were seldom or never used by men.

About three dozen Latin praenomina were in use at the beginning of the Republic, although only about eighteen were common.

Also, because praenomina had grammatical gender, a brother and sister could have the same praenomen, in masculine and feminine forms, and still be easily distinguished.

Another confusing practice was the addition of the full nomenclature of maternal ancestors to the basic tria nomina, so that a man might appear to have two praenomina, one occurring in the middle of his name.

Because some gentes made regular use of only three or four praenomina, new names might appear whenever there were several younger sons.

But, as in other ancient societies, Roman women played little role in public life, so the factors that resulted in the continuation of men's praenomina did not exist for women.

However, it was also common to identify sisters using a variety of names, some of which could be used as either praenomina or cognomina.

In Classical Latin, c represented /ɡ/ only in c and cn, the abbreviations of the praenomina (first names) Gaius and Gnaeus.

In subsequent generations, all reigning emperors assumed Imperator as an additional praenomen (usually without foregoing their original praenomina), and Augustus as a cognomen.

In the Etruscan culture, where women held a markedly higher social status than at Rome or in other ancient societies, inscriptions referring to women nearly always include praenomina.

In the last two centuries of the Republic, and under the early Empire, it was fashionable for aristocratic families to revive older praenomina.

In this way, the same praenomina were passed down in a family from one generation to the next.

Just as men's praenomina, women's names were regularly abbreviated instead of being written in full.

Many nomina were derived in the same way, and most praenomina have at least one corresponding nomen, such as Lucilius, Marcius, Publilius, Quinctius, or Servilius.

Most praenomina were regularly abbreviated, and rarely written in full.

Normally all of the children in a family would have different praenomina.

Not only did this serve to emphasize the continuity of a family across many generations, but the selection of praenomina also distinguished the customs of one gens from another.

One class of cognomina consisted largely of archaic praenomina that were seldom used by the later Republic, although as cognomina these names persisted throughout Imperial times.