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nomen
- /ˈnəʊmən/ UK
- /ˈnoʊmən/ US
Rhymes with -əʊmən
Where it comes from
From Latin nōmen (“name”), a clipping of nōmen gentīle (“family name”). Doublet of name and noun.
noun nomina · nomens
- 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): […]
- 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.”
- 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 o
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title = {nomen},
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