nomen
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Origin of nomen
1885–90; < Latin nōmen name
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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
A little brass in the chancel pavement of Clothall Church, near Baldock, witnesses to some of these: for there ‘Thomas et Dorothea, parentes moesti,’ laid two little sons to rest ... ‘sit nomen Dñi benedictum.’
From Thomas Stanley: His Original Lyrics, Complete, In Their Collated Readings of 1647, 1651, 1657. With an Introduction, Textual Notes, A List of Editions, An Appendis of Translation, and a Portrait. by Stanley, Thomas
Wry-neck, Raii nomina: Jynx, sive torquilla: Usually appears about: The middle of March: harsh note.
From The Natural History of Selborne by White, Gilbert
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 Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
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 White, Gilbert
It is the triumph of the theory of nomina numina; we need not return to it.
From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen
Gronovius and Bekker read Mettius; Niebuhr also prefers Mettius; he conceives that the Latin prænomina and the Roman nomina terminated in ius.
From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livius, Titus
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