Clodius is an alternate form of the Roman nomen Claudius, a patrician gens that was traditionally regarded as Sabine in origin.

* nautae ( genitive ) " the sailor's / of sailor " ( e. g. nomen nautae Claudius est the sailor's name is Claudius )

The name Claudius is a Roman nomen ; the fact that Ptolemy bore it indicates he lived under the Roman rule of Egypt with the privileges and political rights of Roman citizenship.

It would have suited custom if the first of Ptolemy's family to become a citizen ( whether he or an ancestor ) took the nomen from a Roman called Claudius who was responsible for granting citizenship.

An oddity of the names by which these emperors are known today is that several of their ancestors bore the name Tiberius Claudius Nero ; of three emperors belonging to the same family, one is known by a praenomen, one by a nomen, and one by a cognomen.

* T. mortuarius ( nomen dubium ; originally Polyonax mortuarius )

* T. sylvestris ( nomen dubium ; originally Agathaumas sylvestris )

The nomen of the Fabii is said originally to have been Fovius, Favius, or Fodius ; Plinius stated that it was derived from faba, a bean, a vegetable which the Fabii were said to have first cultivated.

Fulvia ) ( Italian Fulvio ) was the nomen of the gens Fulvia, a Plebeian gens of ancient Rome that originally came from Tusculum.

There has, however, been some contention as to whether the name ΙΗΣΟΥ ( Jesus ) in the ' missing ' portions of recto lines 2 and 5 was originally written as nomen sacrum ; in other words, was it contracted to ΙΣ or ΙΗΣ in accordance with otherwise universal Christian practice in surviving early Gospel manuscripts, including the Egerton Gospel?

However, since there is no tradition that any of the early Claudii were lame, the nomen might refer to some ancestor of Attius Clausus.

By the 2nd and 3rd centuries, representatives of the old élite bearing the nomen Julius had practically disappeared, and a new élite arose to take their place ; these would have originated mainly from the indigenous middle class, according to Wightman.

Two separate rock-inscriptions found at Arminna and Toshka, deep in Nubia, give the prenomen and nomen of Kamose and Ahmose side by side and were inscribed at the same time — likely by the same draughtsman — according to the epigraphic data.

* Spurius Licinius, according to Livius tribunus plebis in 481 BC, although Dionysius gives his nomen as Icilius.

However, the name Amphicoeliidae did not come into wider use and was not used in the scientific literature after 1899, making it a nomen oblitum (" forgotten name ") according to the ICZN, preventing it from displacing the name Diplodocidae as a senior synonym.

That Galton considered Othnielia a nomen dubium, means that according to him these other specimens could not be referred to it.

The current classification is nomen conservandum, which means the name is authorized for use by the International Botanical Congress ( IBC ).

Some suggest it is derived from the Roman nomen gentile ( family name ) Artōrius, of obscure and contested etymology ( but possibly of Messapic or Etruscan origin ).

Adelosa is a nomen dubium.

Ancient Romans, such as Pliny the Elder ( Natural History, 3. 5 ) and Varro ( cited by Pliny ), speculated that the name Lusitania was of Roman origin, as when Pliny says lusum enim liberi patris aut lyssam cum eo bacchantium nomen dedisse lusitaniae et pana praefectum eius universae: that Lusitania takes its name from the lusus associated with Bacchus and the lyssa of his Bacchantes, and that Pan is its governor.

As the quagga was described about thirty years earlier than the plains zebra, it appears that the correct terms are E. quagga quagga for the quagga and E. quagga burchelli for the plains zebra, unless " Equus burchelli " is officially declared to be a nomen conservandum.

If Q. northropi is complete enough to be distinguished from other pterosaurs ( i. e., if it is not a nomen dubium ), Hatzegopteryx may represent the same animal.

Terence then took the nomen " Terentius ," which is the origin of the present form.

However, because the name " Ovoraptor " was not published in a scientific journal or accompanied by a formal description, it is considered a nomen nudum (' naked name '), and the name Velociraptor retains priority.

The phrase is turskum ... nomen, " the Tuscan name ", from which a root * Tursci can be reconstructed.

The second name, or nomen gentile ( usually simply nomen ), rarely gentilicium, is the name of the gens ( the family clan ), in masculine form for men.

* Agent noun ( or nomen agentis ), word that is derived from another word denoting an action, and that identifies an entity that does that action

Rafinesque-Schmaltz is a nomen nudum for Galleria, the genus of the Greater Wax Moth.

Curtius is a Roman nomen which may refer to:

His name is mentioned only in the title of his own history, and there it is in the genitive, which would be M. Juniani Justini no matter which nomen he bore.

Livius is the nomen of an individual male of the Livia gens, a family of ancient Rome.

A freedman customarily took his former owner's family name, that is, the nomen ( see Roman naming conventions ) of his master's gens.

Petronius is a Roman nomen shared by several notables:

* Stegosaurus affinis, described by Marsh in 1881, is only known from a pubis and is considered a nomen dubium.

Although Romans who had been adopted into a new family usually retained their old nomen in cognomen form ( e. g. Octavianus for one who had been an Octavius, Aemilianus for one who had been an Aemilius, etc.

Unlike the nomen and cognomen, an agnomen was usually not inherited unless the son also had the same attribute or did the same deeds, although some victory agnomina like Augustus (" Majestic ") and Germanicus (" the German ( Conqueror )") eventually became handed down as additional cognomina.

As this happened, the word nomen came to be applied to these surnames, and the original personal name came to be called the praenomen, or forename, as it was usually recited first.

* T. atavus ( nomen dubium ) Cope, 1871 ( usually regarded as a specimen of Edmontosaurus regalis, although it predates that species by many years and would have taxonomic priority )

A libertus, or freedman usually assumed the nomen ( and sometimes also the praenomen ) of the person who had manumitted him, and a naturalized citizen usually took the name of the patron who granted his citizenship.

The nomen Aurelius is usually connected with the Latin adjective aureus, meaning " golden ", and may have referred to the color of a person's hair.

The decree issued by Pinto said " Habita relatione, Terra Curmi erigmus In Civitatem, Imponentes el nomen Pinto ", which means that the land of Qormi, to which he gave his own name Pinto, was then given higher dignity from a piece of land to a city, a fact which is now preserved in the locality's Latin motto: " Altior Ab Imo " ( which means, rising from the low ).