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What is a nomen?

What is a nomen? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) The name of a citizen of Ancient Rome, designating them as a member of a gens.
  2. 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.
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Consequently, Osteocephalus Fitzinger, 1843, is a nomen nudum.
Nomen est omen: a Slowlight burns very slowly and 'enduring pleasure' are the keywords we stand by.
Nomen est omen. His name remains a portent.
Horace, too, twice links nomen and cognomen, just as Vergil was doing.
In the past the name has been regarded as a nomen nudum but there is some reason for regarding it as having nomenclatural status.
The name AELI was Hadrian's nomen, his main family name, the gens Aelia.

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