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What is a praenomen?

What is a praenomen? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An ancient Roman first name.
  2. The throne name of a pharaoh, the fourth of the five names of the royal titulary, traditionally encircled by a cartouche and preceded by the title nswt-bjtj.
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Suetonius, Jul. 76, errs in stating that he used the title imperator as a praenomen.
The inscription in Caria, formerly supposed to give P. as praenomen, is now shown to have been misread.
The Lives of the Sophists bears the praenomen of Flavius, which we find nowhere else except in Tzetzes.
His person more than justified his praenomen, for Mr. Harper Freeman, Jr., was undeniably fat.
He therefore changed his praenomen to that of his adoptive father, and put his former nomen among his cognomina.
The name of the month in which he was born was changed to Julius, from his praenomen, and we still retain the name.

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