Akeman Street Kirtlington also uses its course. Other parts are in use as public footpaths, including a stretch between Tackley and Stonesfield that is part of the Oxfordshire Way. The origins of the road's name are uncertain but certainly date back to the Early Middle Ages. Some have suggested that "Akeman" derives from the Anglo-Saxon words for "oak-man". Others have suggested a connection with Bath, which the Anglo-Saxons called "Acemannesceastre" ("Acemannes" apparently being derived from the Roman name Aquae Sulis). It is unclear how this might have become associated with the road, but one possibility is that the name was originally used
Nomen (Roman name) the west. The last datable example of a "nomen gentilicium" belongs to a Julia Rogatiana, who died at Volubilis in AD 655; in the east nomina such as "Flavius" continued until the beginning of the eighth century; Flavius Basilius was Pagarch of Aphrodito in Egypt in 710. Nomen (Roman name) The nomen gentilicium, or "gentile name", designated a Roman citizen as a member of a gens. A gens, which may be translated as "race", "family", or "clan", constituted an extended Roman family, all of whom shared the same nomen, and claimed descent from a common ancestor. Particularly in the early