[ANSTHRLD] Looking for Help with a Roman Name

doug bell magnus77840 at hotmail.com
Sun May 4 19:45:03 PDT 2003


Recommended reading if you haven't already done so.
www.panix.com/~mittle/names/otherearly.shtml#roman

I have the Prosopography of the Roman Empire if you
need dates for names.  Most of the people listed
were men but still useful for documenting the base
name.

Magnus von Lubeck

>Greetings!
>Is there anyone out there who could help me with creating a Roman name?  I
>am looking for a name for a persona from the early Empire period, 1st -
>early 2nd centuries C.E.  From what I've been able to find, I would be
>using a name with two elements, nomen and cognomen, both in a feminized
>form.  My questions from there are primarily these:
>1)  Which name would a person be called by their friends, the nomen or
>cognomen?
>2)  I'm interested in using the name Drusilla, I've found Drusus listed as
>a nomen and (from my minimal understanding of Latin) the normal feminine
>form would be Drusa.  Would Drusilla be possible, also, as a feminized
>(possibly a diminutive form) nomen for a woman?
>
>My sincere thanks to anyone who can help me with this,
>Susan


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