nom-, nomen-, nomin-, -nomia, -nomic

Divination from names or the letters of a name, as, the number of vowels in a name, the sum of the numerical value of the letters, or the like.

An excessive fear of names.

To assign a name or names to someone or to something; to call by a certain name.

Concerned with, or relating to, the action of naming.

1. A servant or dependent whose business it was to inform his master or patron of the names of persons, especially when engaged in canvassing for office.
2. A steward or usher who assigned or indicated the places of guests at a banquet.
3. One who announces, or imparts to another, the names of persons or guests.
4. One who gives a name to, or invents a designation for, something: specifically, one who classifies natural objects under appropriate designations.

1. A name, appellation, designation.
2. The act of assigning names to things.
3. A list or collection of names or particulars; a catalogue, a register.
4. A list or collection of words or terms, especially those connected with a particular language or subject; a glossary, a vocabulary.
5. The system or set of names for things, etc., commonly employed by a person or community.
6. The terminology of a science.
7. The collective names given (or to be given) to places in a district or region.
8. A particular set or system of names or designations.

One who devises a nomenclature.

1. A biological taxonomic name that is preserved by special sanction in exception to the usual rules.
2. A taxon name that has been formally accepted under the International Code for botanical nomenclature as the correct name contrary to the usual principles of botanical nomenclature.

A taxon (s), or taxa (pl), is a group of genetically similar organisms that are classified together as a species, genus, family, etc.

In zoological nomenclature, a name which describes a fossil with no unique diagnostic features, and which therefore can not accurately be assigned a classification.

A Latin term, meaning "naked name".

In taxonomy, this refers to a term or phrase which looks like a scientific name, and may well have been intended to become a scientific name, but fails to be one because it was not published with an adequate description, and so is "bare" or "naked" name.

Since a nomen nudum fails to qualify as a formal scientific name, a later author may publish a valid scientific name which is identical in spelling. If the same author publishes a name first as a nomen nudum and then later if it is accompanied by a valid description, the date of publication of the last valid description will become the taxon's date of establishment.

In zoological nomenclature, a name which has not been used in the scientific community for more than fifty years after its original proposal, and which has been replaced by a more recent name in common use.

A nomen oblitum comes from Latin, "forgotten name" and it is a technical term, used in zoology.

In its present meaning, it came into existence with the fourth, 1999, edition of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.

After January 1, 2000, a scientific name could be formally declared to be a nomen oblitum if it had not been used in the scientific community since 1899, and when it was either a senior synonym or a homonym; that is, spelled the same as another name, which is in common use.

Besides conservation of a name, the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature (ICBN) also offers the option of rejection of a name, creating a nomen rejectum (rejected name) that cannot be used anymore. Rejection is possible for a name at any rank.

1. Acting or being something in name only, but not in reality.
2. Representing very little cost when compared with the actual value received.
3. Relating to a noun or a group of words that functions as a noun.
4. Assigned to a named person, and bearing that person’s name.
5. Relating to or consisting of a name or names.
6. A word or group of words that functions as a noun.

The philosophical doctrine that there are no realities other than concrete individual objects.