Hyphenation of cognomen

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word cognomen? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

cog-nomen

Definitions of cognomen:

1.	A familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name) Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph Henry's nickname was Slim
2.	The name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name)

Synonyms of cognomen:

noun	nickname, moniker, sobriquet, soubriquet, appellation, denomination, designation, appellative
noun	surname, family name, last name, name

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.