Etymograph

English

agnomen

Agnomen comes from Latin agnōmen ‘a surname or additional name relating to a…’, and goes back to Hittite ḫannaⁱ- ‘to sue, judge’.

  1. Hittitemodernḫannaⁱ-transliteratedcuneiform ḫannaⁱ-, a transliteration‘to sue, judge’
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁nómn̥‘name’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*nōmn̥‘name’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnōmen
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEagnōmen‘a surname or additional name relating to a specific achievement, characteristic or trait’
  6. Englishtodayagnomen

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Hittitemodernḫannaⁱ-transliteratedcuneiform ḫannaⁱ-, a transliteration‘to sue, judge’
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*h₁nómn̥‘name’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*nōmn̥‘name’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEnōmen
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEagnōmen‘a surname or additional name relating to a specific achievement, characteristic or trait’
  6. Englishtodayagnomen

Equivalent to ag- + nomen

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd ‘near, at’

Proto-Italic *ad ‘toward, to, on, up to, for’

Latin ad ‘to, towards’

English ag-

Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- ‘to produce, to beget, to give birth’

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Proto-Italic *gentis

Latin gēns ‘clan, tribe’

Latin gentīlis ‘family name’

Latin nōmen ‘name’

English nomen

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ ‘name’

name, anonymity, pseudonym, 30 more

through Latin nōmen

nomination, noun, allocate, nominate, nominal, renown, nominative, misnomer, ignominious, ignominy, 19 more

Today it means

noun An additional cognomen given, as an honour, to a Roman citizen.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Hittite ḫannaⁱ- / agnomen

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