Word of the Day:
nomen
What It Means
The family name of an Ancient Roman, designating their gens.
The birth name of a pharaoh, the fifth of the five names of the royal titulary, traditionally encircled by a cartouche and preceded by the title zꜣ-rꜥ.
A taxonomic name.
Nomen in Context
“Over the decades and centuries, Linnaeus’s binominal system reached ever greater prominence as a standard to categorize and stabilize organismal biology, and it became necessary to trace taxon names, so that duplication and confusion could be addressed or avoided. As a consequence, different areas...”
Did You Know?
From Latin nōmen (“name”), a clipping of nōmen gentīle (“family name”). Doublet of name and noun.
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