Definition of "praenomina" []

• Plural form of praenomen. (noun)

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• "As a schoolboy I remember the pride with which I hailed Robin Hood, Robert Bruce, and Robert le Diable as my name-fellows; and the feeling of sore disappointment that fell on my heart when I found a freebooter or a general who did not share with me a single one of my numerous praenomina."
• "Men had personal names (praenomina), women did not."
• "He left behind him four sons, all men of very high station, who had the same cognomen, but the different praenomina of"