nomen
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Becciu explained this tradition during his testimony by invoking its Latin phrase “In odiosis non faceat nomen pontificis,” roughly meaning that the pope shouldn’t be drawn into unpleasant matters.
From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2022
Whatever showdown battle metaphor you like best, that’s what it is going to be like if the words Qui sibi nomen imposuit Pius are used to introduce the next pontiff.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2013
We have met to celebrate the 90th birthday of Dr. Charles William Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard University,— clarum et venerabile nomen .
From Time Magazine Archive
I'm afraid our nomen are a thousand times more harmful than the American yes-men.
From Time Magazine Archive
The name Sciurus Pennsylvanica Ord is clearly not a nomen nudum and must replace leucotis Gapper.
From Comments on the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution of Some North American Rodents by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall
To select fortunate names, the bona nomina of Cicero, was anciently a matter of such solicitude that it became a popular axiom, “A good name is a good fortune.”
From Maids Wives and Bachelors by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Thus he concocts his accusations of immorality, or drunkenness, or profanity, or uncharity towards neighbors, and writes them busily down in his quorum nomina, or formulas of citations to appear before the official's court.
From The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial Aspects by Sedley Lynch Ware
I apprehend that its origin is really in the tria nomina of Roman freemen.
From Notes and Queries, Number 185, May 14, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
It is contrary to the idea of nouns with מ, that they could be used as nomina actionis.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
Gronovius and Bekker read Mettius; Niebuhr also prefers Mettius; he conceives that the Latin prænomina and the Roman nomina terminated in ius.
From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Titus Livius
