ABSTRACT
Nam, a pet-form of Ambrose, ref the E poetaster Ambrose Phillips (16751-1749), master of flaccid and simple-minded, yet often agreeable, pastoral verse.
name, n (whence ME nameles-perh after MD nameloos-E nameless and namely, ME 1UJme/iche, perh after OFris 1UJmelik, and namesake, from name's sake, one named in memory or honour of the name of another) and v (whence pa, YO naming); nomen, agnomen, cognomen, praenomen -nomendator, nomenclature-nominal (whence nomInalism}--nominable-nominate (adj and v), nomination, nominative, nominator, nominee--- denominate (ad md v), denomination (whence denominational, whence denominationalism), denominative, denominator - innominate; - noon, Proper Noon (peculiar to one subject), pronoun, pronominal-ignominious, ignomlny-misnomerI11JDCIIPBte, nuncupation, nuncupative-renown, n and v (whence pa renowned); nom de guerre and nom de plume; surname:-onomastic, onomastioon, onomatopoeia (q.v. at the element onomato-), onomatous-anonym, anonymity, anonymous, cf pseudonym (whence, ani, pseudonymity), pseudonymous; synonym, synonymous (whence synonymity), synonymy (whence, ani, synonymize)-cl' antonym, whence, anI, antonymous.
