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I. Of persons or things
1. nōmen, ĭnis, n. (most gen. term)
2. appellātio (a significant designation)
3. vŏcābŭlum (that by which a class of things or persons is called; not a personal name)
II. Reputation
1. nōmen
2. existĭmātio (good n.)
3. fāma (in good or bad sense)
III. Authority
IV. Name merely, without the reality
V. In adjurations; by way of appeal

• name (subs.):

I. Of persons or things:

1. nōmen, ĭnis, n. (most gen. term): the n. of that disease is avarice, ei morbo n. est avaritia, Cic. Tusc. 4, 11, 26: a young man, Thessalus by n., juvenis nomine Thessalus, Vell. 1, 3, 1. (The name given may be either in agreement with the person or thing named, or with nomen: cf. Gell. 15, 28: figurae usitatae sunt, mihi nomen est Julius, et mihi nomen est Julio: raro, mihi nomen est Julium.) To put down or give in one's n. (esp. for military service), n. dare, edere, profiteri, Liv. 2, 24 (v. to enlist): to answer to one's n., ad n. respondēre, Liv. 7, 4: Cic.: to derive a n., ex aliqua re n. invenire, Cic. Div. 2, 32, 69; reperire, ib. 1, 10, 16; capere, Caes. B. G. 1, 13; accipere, Gell. 3, 16: from a person, ab aliquo n. trahere, Cic. Ph. 4, 2, 5: to assume a n., n. adoptare, Mart. 4, 31, 9; n. arrogare, Quint. 1, prooem. § 14: a Christian n., *n. in baptismate datum, inditum, acceptum.
2. appellātio (a significant designation): to salute any one by the n. of father, salutare aliquem appellatione patris, Plin. 7, 13, 11.
3. vŏcābŭlum (that by which a class of things or persons is called; not a personal name): to call all things by their right n.s, suis vel propriis v. omnes res nominare, cf. Cic. Caec. 18, 51: to change the n.s, not the things, rebus non commutatis immutare v., id. Leg. 1, 13, 38: used of the n. of a freedwoman (Acté), Tac. A. 13, 12. Phr.: what is your n.? qui vocare? Ter. Ad. 5, 6, 3: my n. is Lyconides, Lyconides vocor, Pl. Aul. 4, 10, 49. See also to name.

II. Reputation:

1. nōmen: to have a n., n. habere, Cic. Br. 69, 244 (cf. ib. 69, 238, hujus ... nomen majus fuisset): to enjoy some n. and reputation, aliquod n.que decusque gerere, Virg. Aen. 2, 89: to win an everlasting n., n. immortalitatis (better, aeternum) mereri, Sil. 13, 722: terrified by the reputation of so great a n., tanti n. famâ territus, Vell. 2, 94: to eclipse any one's n., alicujus nomini officere, Liv. prooem.: to lose its n. (of wine), n. perdere, Cato R. R. 55: cf. nec Baccho genus, aut pomis sua n. servat, Virg. G. 2, 240.
2. existĭmātio (good n.): to prefer a good n. to a kingdom, bonam ex. regno praeponere, Nep. Ages. 4: to assail or hurt any one's good n., ex. oppugnare, Cic. Fam. 3, 10; offendere, id. Planc. 2, 6; ex. lacerare, Suet. Caes. 75; ex. laedere, id. Ner. 58.
3. fāma (in good or bad sense): good n. and reputation, f. et existimatio, Cic. Quint. 15, 50 (v. fame): to take away any one's good n., de f. alicujus detrahere, Cic. Fam. 3, 8: alicujus famam laedere, ib. 3, 7. Phr.: to have a good n., bene audire: cf. id. Fin. 3, 17, 57; a bad one, male audire, ib. 5, 40, 116.

III. Authority: verba, orum: esp. in phr., in my, your n., meis, tuis verbis: you will oblige me by congratulating your wife in my n., gratum mihi feceris, si uxori tuae meis v. eris gratulatus, Cic. Fam. 15, 8: in the n. of the Senate, Senatus verbis, Liv. 9, 36.
IV. Name merely, without the reality: nōmen: friendship is a n., fidelity an empty n., n. amicitia, n. inane fides, Ov. A. A. 1, 740: the Campanians brought the n. rather than (the reality of) strength, Campani n. magis quam praesidium attulerunt, Liv. 7, 29.
V. In adjurations; by way of appeal: Phr.: in the n. of gods and men, per deos atque homines, Cic. Div. 2, 55, 114: pro deorum atque hominum fidem, id. Tusc. 5, 16, 48: in heaven's n., Di! vestram fidem, Ter. Andr. 4, 3, 1.

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I. To call by a name
1. nōmĭno, 1
2. expr. by nōmen, ĭnis, n.; and a verb
3. nuncŭpo, 1 (appy. used, in this sense, to avoid the repetition of similar syllables)
4. appello, dīco, etc.
II. To mention by name
1. nōmĭno, 1
2. nuncŭpo, 1 (rare in this sense)
III. To designate, appoint, fix

• name (v.):

I. To call by a name:

1. nōmĭno, 1: love, from which friendship is (so) n.d. amor ex quo amicitia est nominata, Cic. Am. 8, 26: oftener in sense (II.): v. infr.
2. expr. by nōmen, ĭnis, n.; and a verb: e. g. n. alicui dare, Cic. Inv. 1, 24, 34; indere, Pl. St. 2, 1, 20; facere, id. Men. 1, 1, 1; imponere (esp. with ref. to things), Cic. Fin. 3, 1, 3. So to be n.d, n. invenire, reperire [ex aliqua re], v. name, subs. (I.).
3. nuncŭpo, 1 (appy. used, in this sense, to avoid the repetition of similar syllables): they n.d (the offspring) after the god himself, ex nomine ipsius dei nuncupaverunt, Cic. N. D. 2, 23, 60: Suet. Aug. 31 (Sextilem mensem e suo cognomine nuncupavit).
4. appello, dīco, etc.: v. to call.

II. To mention by name:

1. nōmĭno, 1: the Egyptians deem it an impiety to n. Mercury, (Mercurium) Aegyptii nefas habent n., Cic. N. D. 3, 22, 56. Esp. in phr. quem honoris causa nomino = whom I name with all possible respect, Cic. R. Am. 2, 6: Ter.
2. nuncŭpo, 1 (rare in this sense): to n. (enumerate) all Pompey's triumphs, Pompeii omnes triumphos n., Plin. 7, 26, 27.

III. To designate, appoint, fix: Phr.: to n. any one heir, heredem aliquem nuncupare, Ulp. Dig. 28, 1, 21: Tac. (the legal phr.): to n. a master of the horse, magistrum equitum dicere (v. to nominate, appoint): to n. the day for a wedding, diem nuptiis dicere, Ter. Andr. 1, 1, 75: Caes.: Cic.

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s. Any appellation, nomen (PROP., an audible mark of distinction; hence a name of a person or thing, to distinguish from others of the same kind, a proper name, especially the name of a family or race): vocabulum (so far as it serves to denote an object or relation of it; hence, in grammar, nomen appellativum): cognomen (a family name; also = the later agnomen). Names of towns, oppidorum vocabula: a proper name, proprium vocabulum: if the thing have not its own name and term, si res suum nomen et proprium vocabulum non habet (Cic., De Or., 3, 40, in.): non idem oppidum et Roma, cum oppidum sit vocabulum (i. e., nomen appellativum), Roma nomen (i. e., nomen proprium) (Varr., L.L. 10, 2, § 20): to call anything by its name, aliquid nomine signare, notare, or vocare: to give a name to a thing, alicui rei nomen or vocabulum imponere; alicui rei nomen invenire: to give a name to anyone, alicui nomen ponere or imponere, dare or indere: to give to a thing or person a name from a thing or place, denominare aliquem or aliquid a or ab, etc.: to give to a thing the name of a deity, aliquid dei nomine nuncupare: to call a thing after anybody’s name, aliquid ab nomine alicujus appellare (followed by the name in the accusative; e.g., Liv. 1, 1, extr., aeneas ab nomine uxoris Lavinium appellat): to take, adopt, or assume the name of anyone, nomen alicujus sumere: to call anything by a mild name, aliquid molli nomine appellare: to call anybody by a name, aliquem nominare; aliquem nomine or nominatim appellare (☞ but not appellare aliquem alone): to call to or upon anybody by name, aliquem nomine vocare, or (loudly) clamare: to call a thing by its right name, rem suo nomine appellare: to call up by name, aliquem nominatim evocare; aliquos per nomina quotidie citare: to receive a name, nomen accipere (with a genitive of the name received): to derive a name from a person or thing, nomen trahere ab aliquo or ab aliqua re; cognomen or appellationem ex re trahere; ex re nomen capere or invenire (invenire, accidentally); inditur alicui nomen ab aliqua re (a person takes a name from anything): to get a name of account of anything, propter aliquid nomen reperire (accidentally): to have a name from, etc., denominatum esse or nomen habere a re; nomen tenere ab aliquo (poetical); nomen or cognomen adeptum esse ab aliqua re or ab aliquo (poetical); nomen traxisse ab aliqua re: to bear the name of anybody, alicujus nomen ferre: to have a false name, falsum nomen possidere: to have no name, nomine vacare: I bear the name of, est mihi nomen (usually followed by the name in the dativeor nominative, more rarely in the genitive); e.g., I bear the name of Caius, est mihi nomen Caio, Caius, or Caii: they gave him the name of, ei inditum nomen (with a dative of the name): ei dixere nomen (with an accusative of the name): by name, nomine (with a nominative or ablative, rarely a genitive, of the name): alicui est (erat) nomen (with a dative, etc., of the name; Vid: above); e.g., a guest, by name Camelus, quidam hospes, nomine Camelo or Cameli, or cui erat nomen Camelo (or Camelus, more rarely Cameli): a certain man, Cassius by name, quidam Cassius quoque nomine: under a strange name, sub alieno nomine (e.g., libellum edere, Suet., Oct., 55): to borrow money in the name (i. e., on the credit) of anyone, alicujus fide pecuniam mutuam sumere: in the name of (i. e., by commission from) anyone, alicujus verbis: alicujus nomine (in alicujus verbis the words are put in the mouth of him who is to convey them: in alicujus nomine the person commissioned to act for another chooses his own words). (The words are found in this connection and order.) alicujus verbis et alicujus nomine: he sent a slave to the king to tell him this in his name, servum misit ad regem, qui ei nunciaret suis verbis: to accuse anyone in his own name (on his own authority), aliquem suo nomine accusare: to entreat a person in the name of another, aliquem alicujus nomine rogare: in the name of the state, publice (opposed to privatim): in the name of God, cum Deo (with God), quod bene vertat (may it turn out well): in name (i. e., in appearance), verbo tenus; verbo (☞ not nomine): in name, not in reality, verbo, non re or revera: under the name of a thing, nomine alicujus rei (also = under the pretext of): sub titulo alicujus rei, specie alicujus rei (under the pretext; ☞ praetextu is not classical): bearing many names, multa or complura nomina habens (☞ multi nominis is not classical).
Reputation, fame, fama (general term): nomen (in respect of celebrity): existimatio (opinion which others have of us, especially good opinion): to have a great name, magnum nomen or magnam famam habere: to acquire a name, nomen consequi; famam colligere: to seek a name, famae servire: to make a name for one’s self by anything, per aliquid nomen assequi: a good name, bona fama; bona existimatio; laus: to hurt one’s good name, alicujus existimationem offendere or (more strongly) violare; de alicujus fama detrahere: to have a good name, bene audire (opposed to male audire).
Nation, people, nomen (Vid: Herzog, Sall., Cat., 52, 22, and Caes., B.G., 2, 28; Bremi, Nep., Hann., 7, 3): gens ac nomen: to be an enemy of the Roman name (i. e., of every thing which is called Roman), nomini Romano inimicum or infestum esse.

v. To give a name to, nominare aliquid; nomen alicui dare, indere, ponere, imponere (to impose, assign): nomen invenire alicui rei (to invent): nomine or appellatione notare aliquid (to make known or designate): to name things aright, res suis certis ac propriis vocabulis nominare (to call them by the names which they already hare): res notare propriis appellationibus (to give them suitable names): to name a thing anew, res nominibus notare novis: every mishap which we are accustomed to name a calamitas, omnis casus, in quo nomen poni solet calamitas: to name after a thing or a place, denominare a re or a loco; after anyone, ab alicujus nomine appellare: to be named after anything, a re (or ab aliquo) nomen, ex re cognomen or appellationem trahere; ex re nomen capere, reperire, invenire; a re denominatum esse or nomen habere: to be named after anyone, ab aliquo nomen tenere (poetical): to be named, nominor (with name in nominative): nomen habeo (with name in genitive): nomen mihi est (with name in nominative or dative, rarely in the genitive): vocor, appellor (I am named with name in nominative): to be named from anything, nomen a re habere, or duxisse, traxisse, or invenisse.
To call or mention by name, nominare (to call a thing by its own name; also, to give it a name): appellare (to address, to entitle; also, to mention a thing with the addition of a name): vocare, dicere (to call, vocare; PROP., to call to anyone by name then, like dicere, to name an object according to what it is: ☞ vocare usually with a substantive; dicere with an adjective): nomen alicui dare, or indere, or imponere (to give a name to): to name each thing by its own name, suo quamque rem nomine appellare: I need not name anyone, neminem necesse est nominare: without naming an authority, sublato or demto auctore: without naming, sine nomine: to name a person or thing so and so, aliquem or aliquid vocare, appellare (with an accusative of the predicate): aliquid dicere (with an accusative of the predicate): to name one thing or person after another, ex aliqua re or ex aliquo nominare aliquid or aliquem: they name me (i. e., I have the name), mihi est nomen, (with a nominative or dative, or, more rarely, a genitive of the name [Vid: NAME] Named, nomine (with an ablative, genitive, or nominative of the name) or alicui est nomen (of persons = by name, if the real name of anyone follow): qui (quae, quod) dicitur or vocatur (with a nominative of the predicate): quem vocant (with an accusative of the predicate; of persons or things, if a single predicate follow it = so called; for which ☞ ita dictus would be bad Latin).
To nominate, fix, appoint, constituere. To name a period or day, diem constituere, praestituere (to agree upon in common): diem, dicere, condicere, also simply condicere (to name a term for deciding a suit at law): to name a place (e.g., for an interview), locum dicere, locum colloquio statuere.

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I. eig. u. bildl.: nomen ...
II. meton.:
1. Nachrede, Ruf: fama (im ...
2. Nation, Volk: nomen; auch ...

Name,

I. eig. u. bildl.: nomen (im allg.; und insbes. der Eigenname, der Geschlechtsname).
vocabulum (der Name zur Bezeichnung eines Gegenstandes).
appellatio (die Benennung, der Name, das Prädikat, der Titel, der jmdm. od. einer Sache beigelegt, gegeben wird).
cognomen (der Familienname: auch der Beiname).
die Namen der Städte, oppidorum voca bula: der eigentliche (rechte, wahre) N., proprium od. suum nomen; proprium vocabulum: von einerlei N., gleiches N., s. gleichnamig.
die Republik ist nichts, ist ein bloßer N., nihil est res publica, appellatio modo sine corpore ac specie.
etw. mit einem N. bezeichnen, benennen, alqd nomine signare od. notare od. vocare: einer Sache einen N. beilegen, eine Sache mit einem N. belegen, alci rei nomen od. vocabulum imponere; alci rei appellationem dare (für eine Sache einen N. auffinden [und ihn ihr beilegen]): jmdm. od. einer Sache den u. den N. beilegen, alqm od. alqd appellare m. Akk. des Namens: jmdm. einen N. beilegen, geben, jmd. mit einem N. belegen, alci nomen imponere od. dare od. indere (z.B. infanti nomen dare): einer Sache od. Person von einer Sache od. einem Ort einen N. geben, beilegen, denominare alqm od. alqd ab etc: einer Sache den N. einer Gottheit geben, beilegen, alqd dei nomine nuncupare: jmd. mit einem gehässigen N. belegen, nomine criminoso alqm inquinare: eine Sache, Stadt nach jmds. N. benennen, alqd ab nomine alcis appellare mit folg. Benennung im Akk.: einer Sache nach sich den N. geben, sie nach seinem N. benennen, ex suovocabulo od. nomine alci rei (z.B. insulae) nomen dare: einen N. für etw. aufbringen, alqd appellare coepisse m. Akk. (z.B. quod appellare coepit sportulam): den N. von jmd. annehmen, nomen alcis sumere; in alcis nomen adoptari (durch Adoption): etw. mit einem gelinden N. benennen, alqd molli nomine appellare: jmd. beim N. nennen, alqm nominare; alqm nomine od. nominatim appellare: eine Sache bei ihrem rechten N. nennen, alqd suo nomine appellare: jmd. mit N. aufrufen, alqm nominatim evocare: alle beim N. aufrufen, omnes ad nomina od. per nomina citare: jmd. beim N. rufen, alqm nomine vocare: laut, alqm nomine clamare: einen N. erhalten, bekommen, nomen accipere (mit Genet. des Namens, den jmd. bekommt); nomen invenire (einen N. aufbringen, zuerst erhalten, indem man selbst Veranlassung zur Beilegung gegeben hat, und zwar zufällig): einen N. von jmd. od. etwas bekommen (erhalten), nomen accipere ab alqo od. ab alqa re; cognomen ex alqa re trahere (einen Beinamen); a nomine alcis od. alcis rei appellari; ex alqa re nomen capere od. invenire (inv. zufällig): einen N. bekommen (erhalten) wegen etwas, propter alqd nomen reperire (zufällig): einen N. haben, führen von. etc., denominatum esse od. nomen habere ab alqa re; nomen od. cognomen adeptum esse ab alqa re od. ab alqo: jmds. N. haben, führen, alcis nomen ferre: einen falschen N. haben od. führen, falsum nomen possidere: keinen N. haden, nomine vacare: bei den Griechen keinen besondern N. haben, apud Graecos usitatum nomen nullum habere (von einer Sache).
ich habe den N., est mihi nomen, worauf gew. der Name im Dativ od. Nominat., seltener im Genet. folgt, z.B. ich habe den N. Gajus, est mihi nomen Gaio od. Gaius od. Gaii: man gab ihm den N., ei inditum nomen mit folg. Dativ des Namens; ei dixere nomen m. folg. Akk. des Namens.
sein Name sagt schon alles (sagt schon genug), dixi omnia cum nominavi.
mit Namen (namens), nomine mit dem Kasus des Namens, in dem die Person steht, deren Name angegeben werden soll (z.B. quidam hospes, nomine Camelus: u. cuiusdam hospitis, nomine Cameli usw.); alci est (erat) nomen m. Nomin., Genet. od. Dat. des Namens (z.B. quidam hospes, cui erat nomen Camelus od. Cameli od. Camelo).
ohne Namen, s. na menlos no. I.
auf jmds. Namen, z.B. Geld borgen, alcis fide pecuniam mutuam sumere.
im Namen jmds. (namens jmds.), alcis verbis (in jmds. Namen, mündlich als Beauftragter, z.B. abi, nuntia meis verbis m. folg. Akk. u. Infin: eum matris verbis arcessito: u. savium des ei meis verbis); alcis nomine (von seiten jmds. bevollmächtigt, z.B. alqm alcis [z.B. Christi] nomine rogare); alcis iussu (auf jmds. Geheiß, Befehl, z.B. iussu senatus ab alqo petere, ut veniat).
in meinem Namen, auch pro me.
im N. ihres Kollegiums, ex collegii sententia (z.B. tribuni pronuntiaverunt m. folg. Akk. u. Infin.).
im N. des Staates, publice.
im N. Gottes, cum deo (mit Gott); quod bene vertat (es möge gut verlaufen).
dem Namen (d. i. dem Scheine) nach, verbo tenus; od. gew. bl. verbo: dem N., nicht der Tat nach, verbo, non re od. revera.
unter dem Namen jmds., sub nomine od. per nomen alcis (z.B. per amici nomen fallere alqm): unter fremdem N., sub alieno nomine (z.B. libellum edere): unter dem (gegebenen) N. Ariarathes die Regierung antreten, imposito Ariarathis nomine regnare coepisse.
unter dem Namen einer Sache, sub nomine alcis rei (z.B. nunc ager Umbreni sub nomine, nuper Ofelli dictus); nomine alcis rei (auch = unter dem Vorwand, z.B. lucri: u. legis agrariae); per nomen (unter dem angenommenen Namen, z.B. per nomen agrorum uligines paludum accipere); sub titulo alcis rei (unter dem Vorwand, z.B. sub titulo legum aequandarum).

II. meton.:

1. Nachrede, Ruf: fama (im allg.).
nomen (in bezug auf die Berühmtheit).
notitia (das Bekanntsein bei den Leuten); verb. notitia ac nomen.
existimatio. opinio (die Meinung, die andere von uns haben, bes. die gute).
ohne N., s. namenlos no. II.
einen großen N. haben, magnum nomen od. magnam famam habere: einen gefeierten N., celebrati nominis famam habere: in ganz Sicilien einen N. haben, totā Siciliā nominari: einen N. in der Literatur haben, non nullius in litteris nominis esse: wenn ich einigen N. habe, si quid in nobis notitiae ac nominis est.
sich einen Namen machen, einen N. erhalten, erlangen, nomen od. notitiam consequi: famam colligere: einen N. zu erlangen suchen, sich einen N. machen wollen, famae appetentiorem esse; famae servire: sich durch etwas einen N. machen, erwerben, per alqd nomen assequi: sich einen großen N. (in der Welt) machen, amplissimum nomen consequi: sich einen unsterblichen N. machen, immortalitatem assequi: sich einen N. bei der Nachwelt machen, erwerben durch etwas, alqā re memoriam apud posteros adipisci.
ein guter N., bona fama; bona existimatio (das Lob, der gute Klang, den eine Person od. Sache bei den Leuten hat, z.B. imperii).
einen guten N. haben, bene audire (Ggstz. male audire): sich seinen guten N. erhalten, opinionem conservare: dem guten N. schaden, obesse famae.

2. Nation, Volk: nomen; auch verb. gens ac nomen.
der Schrecken des gallischen N., terror Gallici nominis.

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