Definitions for nomen

nomen no·men

Spelling: [noh-men]
IPA: /ˈnoʊ mɛn/

Nomen is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in nomen (emnno).

Definitions for nomen

noun

  1. (in ancient Rome) the second name of a citizen, indicating his gens, as “Gaius Julius Caesar.”.

Origin of nomen

1885-90; Latin nōmen name

Examples for nomen

Huic cœli lilia germinant;Arrisus sponsi permanent;Ac nomen in fidelibusQuam filiorum medius.

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

Consequently, Osteocephalus Fitzinger, 1843, is a nomen nudum.

The name of the gens (nomen), as Cornelius, Tullius, Julius.

The nomen was put after the prnomen, to mark the gens, and commonly ended in ius; as Cornelius, Fabius.

In the past the name has been regarded as a nomen nudum but there is some reason for regarding it as having nomenclatural status.

Tin memuh vi, I am dumb, I keep silence; given in the text as the origin of the nomen gentile, Mam.

Maritima ora qu a Sidone ad gypti limitem extenditur, nomen habet Phœnices.

Most Latin authors have three names—the prenomen, which answers to our Christian name; the nomen, or family name; and the agnomen.

The status of the name Batrachyla longipes is currently that of a nomen dubium (Lynch, 1963).

Word Value for nomen
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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