(link) You might have been aiming for the word agnomen, which is what Romans called nicknames. From Wordnik.com. [mrissa: Also] Reference
The Roman terms agnomen and cognomen were eliminated after consultation with Hsing I-tien of. From Wordnik.com. [Empresses and Consorts] Reference
Sometimes there was also a fourth name, called the agnomen, added from some illustrious action, or remarkable event. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
The agnomen adoptivum indicates his transference by adoption from one gens to another. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Tiberius, received the agnomen of Caligula, a caligulis sine caligis levioribus, quibus adolescentior usus fuerat in exercitu Germanici patris sui. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
The second agnomen recalls the fact of his victory over the Carthaginians, while the addition of the word 'minor' distinguishes him from the former wearer of the same title. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
I was a little anxious to know whether her ladyship would honour me with an agnomen. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 04] Reference
Note: Gibbonus secundum habet pro numero, quod tamen est viri agnomen Wagner, nota in loc. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2] Reference
Finally, one Mr. Anybody can be besmirched with a Portuguese agnomen dos Grudes, which means. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 4] Reference
Tiberius, received the agnomen of Caligula, a caligulis sine caligis levioribus, quibus adolescentior usus fuerat in exercitu. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 2] Reference
Caius Tiberius, received the agnomen of Caligula, a caligulis, sive caligis levioribus, quibus adolescentior usus fuerat in exercitu. From Wordnik.com. [The Waverley] Reference
This agnomen might be the third name, when there was no cognomen, as in the case of Lucius Mummius, who received the name of Achaicus because he overthrew the Achæan. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Lives, Volume II] Reference
Poseidonius means that the prænomen (Quintus, Marcus, &c.) was more used in speaking of or to an individual; but in Plutarch's time the cognomen or agnomen was most used. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Lives, Volume II] Reference
Caesar, the nephew and successor of Caius Tiberius, received the agnomen of Caligula, a caligulis sine caligis levioribus, quibus adolescentior usus fuerat in exercitu Germanici patris sui. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
Otherwise I should have been excessively diverted by the dialogue which you have reported with so much vivacity; the accusation; the predictions; and the elegant agnomen of "the novel-reader" for which I am indebted to this incognito. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1] Reference
Roina - nos homincs duobus primum, poft etiam tribus nominibus vfos effe re - perimus, quorum vnum praccipue nomen, alterum praenomen 9 tertium eognomen aut agnomen adpellaue - runt, quo vt eo melius inteUigatur cxemplo Publii Cornelii Scipionis Afrktini doclarabimus. From Wordnik.com. [Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm cvm observationibvs antiqvariis geographicis chronologicis historicis criticis et passim cvm explicatione monogrammatvm edidit Io. Christophorvs Rasche] Reference
He was thin in person and low in stature, with light sandy-coloured hair, and small pale features, from which he derived his agnomen of BEAN or white; and although his form was light, well proportioned and active, he appeared, on the whole, rather a diminutive and insignificant figure. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 1] Reference
He was thin in person and low in stature, with light sandy-coloured hair, and small pale features, from which he derived his agnomen of BEAN, or white; and although his form was light, well-proportioned, and active, he appeared, on the whole, rather a diminutive and insignificant figure. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since] Reference
Partan is the Scotch for crab, but the immediate recipient of the name was one of the gentlest creatures in the place, and hence it had been surmised by some that, the grey mare being the better horse, the man was thus designated from the crabbedness of his wife; but the probability is he brought the agnomen with him from school, where many such apparently misfitting names are unaccountably generated. From Wordnik.com. [Malcolm] Reference
(name), cognomen (surname), and agnomen (added name). From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
Caesar, the nephew and successor of Caius Tiberius, received the agnomen of Caigula, A CALIGULIS, SIVE CALIGIS LEVIORIBUS, QUIBUS ADOLESCENTIOR. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since] Reference
Now (to forebare for ever solittle of Iris Trees and Lili O’Rangans), concerning the genesis of Harold or Humphrey Chimp — den’s occupational agnomen (we are back in the presurnames prodromarith period, of course just when enos chalked halltraps) and discarding once for all those theories from older sources which would link him back with such pivotal ancestors as the Glues, the. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
There was a cut at me a few months back by the same hand, but my agnomen or agni-nomen not being calculated to strike the popular ear, it dropt anonymous, but it was a pretty compendium of observation, which the author has collected in my disparagement, from some hundreds of social evenings which we had spent together, -- however in spite of all, there is something tough in my attachment to H---- which these violent strainings cannot quite dislocate or sever asunder. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference
Gays really need to change their agnomen. From Wordnik.com. ["It should be known that Jonathan Crutchley's donation to McCain left the entire Board in disbelief."] Reference
The usual agnomen of Gustavus. From Wordnik.com. [Early Reviews of English Poets] Reference
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