nomenclature

Roget category 564

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.10. Means of communicating ideas
›› 4.10.2. Conventional means

#564. Nomenclature

noun

nomenclature — naming etc. v. — nuncupation^†, nomination, baptism — orismology^† — onomatopoeia — antonomasia^†.
name — appelation^†, appelative^† — designation, title — heading, rubric — caption — denomination — by-name, epithet.
style, proper name — praenomen [Lat.], agnomen^†, cognomen — patronymic, surname — cognomination^† — eponym — compellation^†, description, antonym — empty title, empty name — handle to one's name — namesake.
term, expression, noun — byword — convertible terms etc. 522 — technical term — cant etc. 563.

verb

name, call, term, denominate designate, style, entitle, clepe^†, dub, christen, baptize, characterize, specify, define, distinguish by the name of — label etc. (mark) 550.
be called etc. v. — take the name of, bean the name of, go by the name of, be known by the name of, go under the name of, pass under the name of, rejoice in the name of.

adjective

named etc. v. — hight^†, ycleped, known as — what one may well, call fairly, call properly, call fitly.
nuncupatory^†, nuncupative — cognominal^†, titular, nominal, orismological^†.

phrase

beggar'd all description" [Antony and Cleopatra].

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