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[noh-men] / ˈnoʊ mɛn /






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Becciu explained this tradition during his testimony by invoking its Latin phrase “In odiosis non faceat nomen pontificis,” roughly meaning that the pope shouldn’t be drawn into unpleasant matters.

From Seattle Times ● May 21, 2022

Whatever showdown battle metaphor you like best, that’s what it is going to be like if the words Qui sibi nomen imposuit Pius are used to introduce the next pontiff.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2013

We have met to celebrate the 90th birthday of Dr. Charles William Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard University,— clarum et venerabile nomen .

From Time Magazine Archive

I'm afraid our nomen are a thousand times more harmful than the American yes-men.

From Time Magazine Archive

We do not agree with Bangs that pennsylvanicus is a nomen nudum for the following reasons.

From Comments on the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution of Some North American Rodents by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall

Gronovius and Bekker read Mettius; Niebuhr also prefers Mettius; he conceives that the Latin prænomina and the Roman nomina terminated in ius.

From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Titus Livius

Woodlark, Raii nomina: Alauda arborea: In January, and continues to sing through all the summer and autumn.

From The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White

It is contrary to the idea of nouns with מ, that they could be used as nomina actionis.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

This is highly important because it shows that although the nomina basis of his prosody is both accentual and syllabic, the latter element is really its defining principle.

From The Art of English Poetry (1708) by Edward Bysshe

Birds that sing as they fly are but few: Skylark, Raii nomina.

From The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White


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