Nomen in a sentence

Salway, p.136 Secondly, with the nomen becoming an increasingly fossilized formality, non-Italian families, even those who had acquired citizenship and a nomen prior to 212, began to ignore their nomen.

The category nomen included substantives (nomen substantivum, corresponding to what are today called nouns in English) as well as adjectives (nomen adjectivum).

As a result, "New Romans" and, under their influence, "old Romans" too, either dropped the nomen from their name or, in some cases, treated the nomen as a praenomen.

Because a Roman woman did not change her nomen when she married, her nomen alone was usually sufficient to distinguish her from every other member of the family.

Most women were called by their nomen alone, or by a combination of nomen and cognomen.

Nomen and prenomen The prenomen and nomen were contained in a cartouche.

Salway, p.133 With the mass enfranchisement of 212, the new citizens adopted the nomen "Aurelius" in recognition of Caracalla’s beneficence (the emperor's full name was Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Augustus, with Aurelius as the nomen).

The result was that two names remained in use for formal public address but instead of praenomen + nomen, it became nomen + cognomen.

A gens, which may be translated as "race", "family", or "clan", constituted an extended Roman family, all of whom shared the same nomen, and claimed descent from a common ancestor.

Almost all other persons mentioned as part of the traditions surrounding Romulus as the first King of Rome have both praenomen and nomen.

Along the village, succubi entice the tainted souls who come to Nomen Tuum and lead them to their deaths in order to offer their souls to Hell /the God of Darkness.

An emperor might emancipate or enfranchise large groups of people at once, all of whom would automatically receive the emperor's praenomen and nomen.

Both inscriptions are from Roman Spain, and are also notable for the doubled nomen and for the cognomen Secunda, which in this case is really a praenomen placed after the filiation, a common practice in Roman women's names of this period.

But as Roman institutions vanished, and the distinction between nomen and cognomen ceased to have any practical importance, so the complex system of cognomina that developed under the later empire faded away.

Customarily a newly enfranchised citizen would adopt the praenomen and nomen of his patron; that is, the person who had adopted or manumitted him, or otherwise procured his citizenship.

Dates were written as a.d. NN, an abbreviation for ante diem NN, meaning "on the Nth (Numerus) day before the named reference day (Nomen)", Syntax note: The Romans often inserted a phrase between a preposition and its noun, and here.

Etymology The word polynomial joins two diverse roots: the Greek poly, meaning "many," and the Latin nomen, or name.

For most of the Republic, the usual manner of distinguishing individuals was through the binomial form of praenomen and nomen.

Invocation Frederic Leighton (1830–1896) In the earliest period, the binomial nomenclature of praenomen and nomen that developed throughout Italy was shared by both men and women.

It is also generally assumed that, as a member of the lowest rank of society - albeit a citizen Had Aurelian's family been enfranchised by virtue of the Constitutio Antoniniana (212 AD) his nomen would have been "Aurelius".