Præ-nō'men, n.

n.; pl. PRÆ-NŌM'Ī-NĀ. [Lat., from præ, before, and nomen, name; Fr. prénom.] (Rom. Antiq.) The first name of a person, by which individuals of the same family were distinguished, answering to our Christian name, as Caius, Lucius, Marcus, &c.