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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plural of nomen.

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  • The Latins called accounts of money rationes, and accounting ratiocinatio; and that which we in bills or books of account call ‘items’ they call nomina, that is ‘names, ’ and thence it seems to proceed that they extended the word ratio to the faculty of reckoning in all other things.

    Chapter IV. Of Speech 1909

  • The Latins called accounts of money rationes, and accounting, ratiocinatio: and that which we in bills or books of account call items, they called nomina; that is, names: and thence it seems to proceed that they extended the word ratio to the faculty of reckoning in all other things.

    Leviathan 2007

  • The Latins called accounts of money rationes, and accounting, ratiocinatio: and that which we in bills or books of account call items, they called nomina; that is, names: and thence it seems to proceed that they extended the word ratio to the faculty of reckoning in all other things.

    Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651

  • Other common abbreviations — also known as Christograms — include the INRI (from the Latin for “Jesus Nazarene, King of the Jews”) on crucifixes, the IHS (from the first three letters in “Jesus” in Greek) on tombstones, or the contracted nomina sacra in early Greek scriptures.

    Putting the X back in Christmas « Motivated Grammar 2009

  • Other common abbreviations — also known as Christograms — include the INRI (from the Latin for “Jesus Nazarene, King of the Jews”) on crucifixes, the IHS (from the first three letters in “Jesus” in Greek) on tombstones, or the contracted nomina sacra in early Greek scriptures.

    2009 December « Motivated Grammar 2009

  • Clearly, naming things is one of the major themes of the book, and the nature of signs (as in semiotics as well as the paranoid mediaeval style), is what Eco is really interested in, hence the title and the latin riddle that finishes the novel: Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.

    I thought I was wrong once but I was mistaken « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2008

  • The choice was "unhappy" but the liberals are so touched with the "nomina" of a friend...

    More on the Recife Case: Archbishop of Olinda and Recife threatens a canonical denunciation against Archbishop Rino Fisichella 2009

  • The "fear" was that words like "op" would be used as nomina.

    Disproving a particular translation of TLE 193 once and for all 2009

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  • Political scientists will have a field day this September explaining how a candidate who won primary contests in California, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas failed to secure her party's nomina ...

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