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Webster 1913 Edition

Praenomen

Præ-no′men

,

Noun.

;

pl.

Prænomina

(#)

.

[L., fr.

prae

before +

nomen

name.]

(Rom. Antiq.)

The first name of a person, by which individuals of the same family were distinguished, answering to our Christian name, as Caius, Lucius, Marcus, etc.