Name in ancient Rome which identified people as members of a gens (ie. family or clan)
Part of Ancient Egyptian royal titulary; one of the pharaoh's five names.
1 There were still black-furred nomen prowling in the woods, and frowth giants.
2 You still think girls get moist when they hear arcane nomen - clature .
3 Sancte Petre!-Paternoster, qui es in coelis, sanctificeter nomen tuum; adveniat regnum tu-
4 Sixteen hundred years ago, nomen and Toth had died here by the uncounted score.
5 His full name was Quintus Vergilius Varro, but all knew the youth by his nomen .
6 These were called the prænomen (forename), nomen (name), cognomen (surname), and agnomen (added name).
7 The nomen proper, Cornelius, declares the wearer of it to belong to the illustrious gens Cornelia.
8 Dominus dedit, Dominus abstulit, sit nomen Domini benedictum.
9 Is it a nomen or a verbum?
10 Velut unguentum diffunditur nomen tuum &c.
11 The tenor bell at Welford, Berks, has the inscription, "Missi de celis habeo nomen Gabrielis 1596."
12 The nomen was put after the prænomen, to mark the gens, and commonly ended in ius; as Cornelius, Fabius.
13 Such a "Clarum et venerabile nomen gentibus?"
14 Occasio avaritiae nomen pauperum.
15 Substantiae nomen significat essentiam cui competit sic esse, id est per se esse; quod tamen esse non est ipsa ejus essentia.
16 In speaking of the foregoing Ausonius writes, "Cujus erat facies in qua paterque materque cognosci possint, nomen traxit ab illis."
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