What is your “Latin” name?

[Cimbri]

Warning! This is pretty odd…
Imagine you’re a nobleman or knight in ancient republican Rome (Before 25 B.C.), what would your name be if you could make up your own family?
There is a rule however!
Your full name must have a praenomen (surname), a nomen (last name/ family name) and a cognomen (a third name of some special meaning)
Like this: Gnaeus (praenomen) Pompeios (nomen) Strabo (cognomen)
My name would be:
Caius Delerius Maximus or Quintus Fanaticus Mujahidinicus

Heh, heh…
Cimbri

 

[puglover]

Marcus Phillipus Surulius


How's that?

 

[Cimbri]

Very nice of Lover of Pugs

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

uuuhhh.

Gaius Mucius Scaevola

 

[Perfection]

Mynamii Es Perfectus

 

[puglover]

Originally posted by Cimbri
Very nice of Lover of Pugs

Thanx.


Lefty: I took Latin for a year or two. If my memory is correct, a name that ends in an "a" is a woman's name!

 

[DiamondzAndGunz]

I don't know any Latin ( stupid school doesn't have latin! ) but here goes:

Ricardus Primus Magnus

 

[GenghisK]

Crazyus Forus Kiraius
Or Verfliefdus Opus Kiraius

 

[Kira]

Kickus GK-us Assus
Dezus manus isus hopeloooooooooosus

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by puglover
Lefty: I took Latin for a year or two. If my memory is correct, a name that ends in an "a" is a woman's name!

Look me up in the encyclopedia or a Roman legedarium. Scaevola in a clan cognomen meaning left handed. Britannica will have 2 or 3 Scaevola's in it. Although First declension nouns are usually feminine, some few are masculine.

Edit: looked it up Scaevola/ae is m

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

'a' is feminine for ROMAN praenomina and usually nomina, too, but NOT necessarily for cognomina. That depends on what the word was derived from. Examples? Sulla, for one!


me:

there is no classical Roman equivalent of my fisrt name so i have to latinize it, same goes for the family name


Henricus Malius Scotus

 

[Pillager]

Jollus Biggus Dickus.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

Pillager: and what is HER name? i never get it because of all the laughter on the tape......

 

[GenghisK]

Wannaseeus apicus ofus Kirainzerokinius

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Pillager
Biggus Dickus.

Are you sure that is not Mentulla* Caput?

* you will not find find that one in you latin dictionary, but you can find it several times in some of catullus's epigrams, and is is very stange that is is first declension

 

[cromagnon]

Originally posted by Lt. 'Killer' M.
Pillager: and what is HER name? i never get it because of all the laughter on the tape......

I think it's Incontinentia Buttocks.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

tx, cromagnon!

 

[Yaniv]

Thisis lotof spammus

 

[Suppersalmon]

did latin at school hated it

but i remember the life of brian with all the roman names

 

[tctatheel7]

Praenomen mehi est Tulius. Nomen mehi est Callius. Cognoman mehi est Giaus.

(i took latin for 2 years. it sucked. now i take french, which sucks worse)