Editing Slave name (section)

== Ancient Rome==
{{See also|Slavery in the Roman Empire}}
In [[Rome]], slaves were given a single name by their owner. A slave who was [[Manumission|freed]] might keep their slave name and adopt the former owner's name as a [[praenomen]] and [[Roman naming conventions|nomen]]. As an example, one historian says that "a man named Publius Larcius freed a male slave named Nicia, who was then called Publius Larcius Nicia."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/roman_names.html |title=Roman Nomenclature |author=<!--Not stated--> |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201119170338/http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/roman_names.html |website=vroma.org |archive-date=November 19, 2020 |access-date=November 29, 2024 }}</ref>

Historian [[Harold Whetstone Johnston]] writes of instances in which a slave's former owner chose to ignore custom and simply chose a name for the [[freedman]].<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20030714161452/http://www.forumromanum.org/life/johnston_2.html#60 Johnson, Harold Whetstone; Johnston, Mary; Names of Freedmen; 1903, 1932; forumromanum.org]}}</ref>