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Meanings of nomen in English

Russian
номен
Spanish
nomen
Catalan
gens

Name in ancient Rome which identified people as members of a gens (ie. family or clan)

        номен
        Russian
        личное имя фараона
        Portuguese
        nome do filho de rá
        Catalan
        nomen
        Spanish
        nombre de sa-ra

        Part of Ancient Egyptian royal titulary; one of the pharaoh's five names.

              личное имя фараона
              Usage of nomen in English
              1
              There were still black-furred nomen prowling in the woods, and frowth giants.
              Brotherhood of the Wolf
              2
              You still think girls get moist when they hear arcane nomen-clature.
              Surface detail
              3
              Sancte Petre!-Paternoster, qui es in coelis, sanctificeter nomen tuum; adveniat regnum tu-
              Wild Western Scenes / A Narrative of Adventures in the Western W...
              4
              Sixteen hundred years ago, nomen and Toth had died here by the uncounted score.
              Wizardborn
              5
              His full name was Quintus Vergilius Varro, but all knew the youth by his nomen.
              Vergilius: A Tale of the Coming of Christ
              6
              These were called the prænomen (forename), nomen (name), cognomen (surname), and agnomen (added name).
              The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Repu...
              7
              The nomen proper, Cornelius, declares the wearer of it to belong to the illustrious gens Cornelia.
              Deductive Logic
              8
              Dominus dedit, Dominus abstulit, sit nomen Domini benedictum.
              System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Miser...
              9
              Is it a nomen or a verbum?
              Comedies by Holberg : Jeppe of the Hill, The Political Tinker, E...
              10
              Velut unguentum diffunditur nomen tuum &c.
              The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7)
              11
              The tenor bell at Welford, Berks, has the inscription, "Missi de celis habeo nomen Gabrielis 1596."
              English Villages
              12
              The nomen was put after the prænomen, to mark the gens, and commonly ended in ius; as Cornelius, Fabius.
              Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology / For Classical Schools...
              13
              Such a "Clarum et venerabile nomen gentibus?"
              Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 / Revised, Enlarged, and ...
              14
              Occasio avaritiae nomen pauperum.
              The Cloister and the Hearth
              15
              Substantiae nomen significat essentiam cui competit sic esse, id est per se esse; quod tamen esse non est ipsa ejus essentia.
              The Divine Comedy, Volume 3, Paradise
              16
              In speaking of the foregoing Ausonius writes, "Cujus erat facies in qua paterque materque cognosci possint, nomen traxit ab illis."
              Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine