nomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊmən/
ipa: /ˈnoʊmən/
rhymes: -əʊmən
Forms: form: nomina
form: nomens
Etymology: From Latin nōmen (“name”), a clipping of nōmen gentīle (“family name”). Doublet of name and noun.
Senses: examples: text: 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): […]
ref: 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xiv:
text: 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.
ref: 1990, Richard N. Longenecker, Galatians (Word Biblical Commentary; 41), Zondervan, →ISBN, page 2:
glosses: The family name of an Ancient Roman, designating their gens.
examples: text: 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.”
ref: 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:
text: The following is a list of the prenomens and nomens of Egyptian kings which are of common occurrence, with transliterations into Roman letters.
ref: 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:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
glosses: A taxonomic name.
Hypernyms: word: surname
sense: Pharaonic name
word: given name
Coordinate terms: word: praenomen
english: epithet or clan name
translation: epithet or clan name
word: cognomen
english: epithet
translation: epithet
word: agnomen
sense: Pharaonic name
word: serekh name
sense: Pharaonic name
word: Two Ladies name
sense: Pharaonic name
word: gold name
sense: Pharaonic name
english: throne name
translation: throne name
word: praenomen
Related 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