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
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
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
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
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
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
