Meaning of nomen | Babel Free

Definitions

1. name
   declension-3
2. short for nomen gentile, nomen, the family name in a Roman name, indicating the person's gens
   abbreviation, alt-of, declension-3, historical
3. title
   declension-3
4. noun, inclusive of substantives, adjectives, pronouns, articles, and numerals
   declension-3, form-of, inclusive, noun
5. debt, particularly a written bond or item of debt
   declension-3, figuratively
6. people, race
   declension-3, figuratively, metonymically
7. fame, renown
   declension-3, figuratively
8. reputation, good name
   declension-3, figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“Tum videbit, ad quem hoc pertinet, quot et quae partes orationis; quanquam de numero parum convenit. Veteres enim, quorum fuerunt Aristoteles quoque atque Theodectes, verba modo et nomina et convinctiones tradiderunt; videlicet quod in verbis vim sermonis, in nominibus materiam (quia alterum est quod loquimur, alterum de quo loquimur) […]”

He, whom this matter shall concern, will then understand how many parts of speech there are and what they are, though as to their number, writers are by no means agreed. For the more ancient, among whom were Aristotle and Theodectes, said that there were only verbs, nouns, and convinctions, because, that is to say, they judged that the force of language was in verbs, and the matter of it in nouns (since the one is what we speak, and the other that of which we speak) […]

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