different between cognomen vs signature

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cogn?men.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /k???no?.m?n/
• Hyphenation: cog?no?men

Noun

cognomen (plural cognomens or cognomina)

1. Surname.
2. (historical, Ancient Rome) The third part of the name of a citizen of Ancient Rome.
3. A nickname or epithet by which someone is identified.

   Synonyms: byname, moniker, sobriquet

Translations

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “cognomen”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• cognomen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Etymology

From con- (“together, with”) +? n?men (“name”). The g is from false association with cogn?sc? (“recognize”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ko??no?.men/, [k???no?m?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ko???o.men/, [k??????m?n]

Noun

cogn?men n (genitive cogn?minis); third declension

1. surname
2. third part of a formal name
3. an additional name derived from some characteristic

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Related terms

• agn?men
• n?men

Descendants

References

• cognomen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cognomen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cognomen in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cognomen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• cognomen in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cognomen in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French signature, or from Medieval Latin signatura, future active periphrastic of verb signare (“to sign”) from signum (“sign”), + -tura, feminine of -turus, future active periphrastic suffix.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s??n?t??(r)/, /?s??n?t??(r)/
• (US) enPR: s?g?n?ch?r, s?g?n?ch?r, IPA^(key): /?s??n?t??/, /?s??n?t??/

Noun

signature (plural signatures)

2. A person's name, written by that person, used as identification or to signify approval of accompanying material, such as a legal contract.
3. An act of signing one's name; an act of producing a signature.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:signature.
4. (medicine) The part of a doctor’s prescription containing directions for the patient.
5. (music) Signs on the stave indicating key and tempo, composed of the key signature and the time signature.
6. (printing) A group of four (or a multiple of four) sheets printed such that, when folded, they become a section of a book.
7. (computing) A pattern used for matching the identity of a virus, the parameter types of a method, etc.
8. (cryptography) Data attached to a message that guarantees that the message originated from its claimed source.
9. (figuratively) A mark or sign of implication.
   • 1975, United States. Office of Noise Abatement and Control, First Report on Status and Progress of Noise Research and Control Programs in the Federal Government (volume 1, page 6-13)

     The TACOM Vehicle Signature Reduction program is concerned with reducing the noise signature detectability of military vehicles in combat.
10. A dish that is characteristic of a particular chef.
11. (mathematics) A tuple specifying the sign of coefficients in any diagonal form of a quadratic form.
12. (medicine, obsolete) A resemblance between the external character of a disease and those of some physical agent, for instance, that existing between the red skin of scarlet fever and a red cloth; supposed to indicate this agent in the treatment of the disease.
13. (Internet) Text (or images, etc.) appended to a user's emails, newsgroup posts, forum posts, etc. as a way of adding a personal touch or including contact details.

    Synonyms: sig, siggy

Hyponyms

• biosignature

Derived terms

• signature-compatible

Translations

See also

• autograph

Adjective

signature (not generally comparable, comparative more signature, superlative most signature)

1. Distinctive, characteristic, indicative of identity.
   • 2001, Lawrence J. Vale, Sam Bass Warner, Imaging the city: continuing struggles and new directions,

     Consider Las Fallas of Valencia, Spain, arguably the most signature of signature ephemera.

   • 2005, Paul Duchscherer, Linda Svendsen, Beyond the bungalow: grand homes in the arts & crafts tradition,

     Considered the most signature effect of the Tudor Revival style, half-timbering derived its distinctive […] .

   • 2005, Brett Dawson, Tales from the 2004-05 Fighting Illini,

     But it was perhaps the most signature shot Williams ever made in an Illinois uniform, a bullying basket in which he used his power to pound Stoudamire, […] .

   • 2005, CBS News website, Paul Winchell Dead At Age 82,

     He credited his wife, who is British, for giving him the inspiration for Tigger’s signature phrase: TTFN. TA-TA for now.

Translations

References

• signature at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• antisurge, gauntries, sautering

French

Etymology

signer +? -ture; cf. Medieval Latin signatura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.?a.ty?/

Noun

signature f (plural signatures)

1. signature (a person's name written in their own handwriting)

   désavouer sa signature

2. the act of signing

   Le décret est à la signature.

Related terms

• signer
• signataire

Further reading

• “signature” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Participle

sign?t?re

1. vocative masculine singular of sign?t?rus