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 .
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I'm afraid our nomen are a thousand times more harmful than the American yes-men.
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He nomen on-on, and comen sone, And brouthen hire, þat under mone 2792 In al þe werd ne hauede per, Of hende-leik, fer ne ner.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
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
Ring-ousel, Raii nomina: Merula torquata: This is a new migration which I have lately discovered about Michaelmas week, and again about the fourteenth of March.
From The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
The first, whose principal though not sole champion is Max Müller, holds that myths are the result of a disease of language—words become things, "nomina numina."
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Albert Heyem Nachmen Baron
It is just the nomina sexus which here are suitable; the omission of the article also is intentional.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
On the first page are given the nomina actorum, and underneath is written "August 5th, 1643."
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen