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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

The chief is a fifth part of the shield nearest the top; unde nomen.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Mark Antony Lower

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

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

Woodlark, Raii nomina: Alauda arborea: In January, and continues to sing through all the summer and autumn.

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

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




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