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nomen

[noh-men] / ˈnoʊ mɛn /






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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

Their inhabitants constituted the nomen Latinum, and, unlike the Roman cives sine suffragio, did not serve in the Roman legions but formed separate detachments of horse and foot.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak

It is the triumph of the theory of nomina numina; we need not return to it.

From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron

A collection in any language of all the names of persons which have since become names of things—from nomina apellativa have become nomina realia—would be very curious and interesting, I will enumerate a few.

From On the Study of Words by Richard Chenevix Trench

The nominalists, on the other hand, argued that "universals" are mere notions of the mind, and that individuals alone are real; their motto was Universalia sunt nomina.

From Historia Calamitatum by Peter Abelard

Dædalus gave his son a pair of wings without considering the consequence; the boy flew out of all bounds, lost his wings, and tumbled into the sea: Icarus, Icariis nomina fecit aquis.

From Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton

Wry-neck, Raii nomina: Jynx, sive torquilla: Usually appears about: The middle of March: harsh note.

From The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White




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