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 sense of the thing is that the “company” is a nomen collectivum for the members.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various
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
We cannot therefore but believe that those who first gave names to things, did it with design; and this, I imagine, Aristotle himself understood when he said, ad placitum nomina significare.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
As the various Aryan families separated, the sense of the old words and names became dim, the nomina developed into numina, the names into gods, the descriptions of elemental processes into myths.
From Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 by Andrew Lang
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
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
