Nomen

pi. nomina, I A name. Nomen collectivum: a collective name or term; a term expressive of a class, of the plural as well as the singular number; a term descriptive of person or interest, or both. Nomen dicitnr a noscendo, quia uotitiam facit: nomen (a name) is so called from noscendo (knowing), because it causes knowledge. Nomen est quasi reinotamen: nomen (a name) is, as it were, notamen rei (the mark of a thing). Nomen generate: a general name; the name of a genus. Nomen generalissimum: a name of technicfil term. Noinen non snfllcit, si res non sit de jure ant de facto: a name is not sufficient, if there be not a thing [or subject for it] de jure or de facto. Nomen nniversitatis: the name [of the ■whole together], the entire tiling, from all ijoints of view. Nomina mntabilia snnt, res antein immobiles: names are mutable, but things are immovable [immutable]. Nomina si nescis perit cognitio reram et nomina, si perdas certe distinetlo rerum perditnr: if you are ignorant of names [without a knowledge of names], the knowledge of things perishes; and if you lose the names, the distinction of things IS certainly lost In old English law. A name; the name; the given or baptismal name of a person. Nomina Tillarnm: names of the villages; the name of a, return made by the sheriffs into the exchequer, in the reign of Edward TI., of the names of all the villages and their possessors in every county. In the Roman law. A name; in the most general sense, the three names of prcenomen, nomen and cognomen; in a strict sense, the second of the three names which the Romans commonly had, following the prcenomen, and marking the gens to which the individual belonged; a debtor; the obligation of a debtor; a debt; the cause of a debt; an article of an account. Nomina signiflcandorum hominnm reperta sunt, qui si alio qnolibet modo intelligautur, nihil interest: names were invented for the purpose of designating persons, who, if they can be known in any other way, it makes no difference.