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Augurinus

ancient Roman cognomen

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ63105646 ↗
Source-derived summary

Augurinus is an ancient Roman cognomen. Notable people with the cognomen include:

Gnaeus Genucius Augurinus (died 396 BC), Roman consular tribune

Titus Genucius Augurinus, Roman politician

Marcus Minucius Augurinus (fl. c. 509 – 488 BC), Roman politician

Publius Minucius Augurinus (fl. c. 492 BC), Roman politician

Tiberius Minucius Augurinus (died 305 BC), Roman politician

Lucius Minucius Esquilinus Augurinus (fl. c.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Augurinus” as ancient Roman cognomen. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Augurinus, ancient and Roman.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 60-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Augurinus, ancient and Roman providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q63105646. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Augurinus” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.