nomen
nounUK /ˈnəʊmən/ · US /ˈnoʊmən/
Etymology From Latin nōmen (“name”), a clipping of nōmen gentīle (“family name”). Doublet of name and noun.
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Historical The family name of an Ancient Roman, designating their gens.
- The Romans evolved a quite different system of nomenclature, which in its classical form consisted of three names, the praenomen (e.g. Marcus), nomen (e.g. Tullius), and cognomen (e.g. Cicero), and two other designations (the name of the father and of the tribe): […]1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xiv:
- Greeks and other provincials who gained Roman citizenship kept their Greek names as cognomens, to which they added Roman nomens and praenomens—usually those of the ones to whom they owed their citizenship.1990, Richard N. Longenecker, Galatians (Word Biblical Commentary; 41), Zondervan, →ISBN, page 2:
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Historical The birth name of a pharaoh, the fifth of the five names of the royal titulary, traditionally encircled by a cartouche and preceded by the title zꜣ-rꜥ.
- The adytum is unsculptured, but two monoliths within it bear the name of Physcon and Cleopatra; and in the front chamber of the naos is that of the Ethiopian king “Ashar (Atar)-Amun*, the everliving,” who in some of his nomens is called “the beloved of Isis.”1843, [John] Gardner Wilkinson, Modern Egypt and Thebes: Being a Description of Egypt; Including the Information Required for Travellers in That Country, volume II, London: John Murray, […], page 308:
- The following is a list of the prenomens and nomens of Egyptian kings which are of common occurrence, with transliterations into Roman letters.1906, E[rnest] A[lfred] Wallis Budge, Cook’s Handbook for Egypt and the Sûdân, 2nd edition, London: Tho[ma]s Cook & Son, […]; Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., page 189:
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A taxonomic name.
- Over the decades and centuries, Linnaeus’s binominal system reached ever greater prominence as a standard to categorize and stabilize organismal biology, and it became necessary to trace taxon names, so that duplication and confusion could be addressed or avoided. As a consequence, different areas of biology developed 'codes' of nomenclature, according to which the availability of such nomina could be governed.2023, Wolfgang Denzer, Hinrich Kaiser, “Naming And Gaming: The Illicit Taxonomic Practice Of 'Nomenclatural harvesting' And How To Avoid It”, in Journal of Zoology, volume 320, number 3, page 161:
- Related terms
26 terms
nomen abstractum, nomen acti, nomen actionis, nomen agentis, nomen ambiguum, nomen appellativum, nomen concretum, nomen confusum, nomen correctum, nomen deminutivum, nomen gentilicium, nomen instrumenti, nomen loci, nomen nescio, nomen patientis, nomen periculosum, nomen protectum, nomen rectum, nomen regens, nomen relativum, nomen sacrum, nomen translatum, nomen unitatis, nomen vasis, nomen verbi, nomen vicis- Hypernyms
- surname, given name
- Coordinate terms
- praenomen, cognomen, agnomen, serekh name, Two Ladies name, gold name