"nomen nescio" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "nōmen nesciō",
        "4": "",
        "5": "I do not know the name"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin nōmen nesciō (“I do not know the name”)",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin nōmen nesciō (“I do not know the name”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nomina nescio",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nomina nescio"
      },
      "expansion": "nomen nescio (plural nomina nescio)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [
            "Undefined derivations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Henrik Wenzel, Michael Hauschild, Leo Alting, “Environmental assessment of products”, in Methodology, tools and case studies in product development, volume 1, Kluwer Academic Publishers, page 208",
          "text": "As is evident in the figure, the allocation is always between one product and the average pool of products (product NN (nomen nescio)) which supplies or takes from the pool of material.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Alan Tyson, Sieghard Brandenburg, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven: Studies in the Music of the Classical Period — Essays in Honour of Alan Tyson, Oxford University Press, page 128",
          "text": "Firstly, a word concerning ‘N.N.’. It was Nissen’s usual practice when obliterating names in the autographs of the letters (a nickname is actually involved here, as we shall see) to write above or by them ‘N.N.’, an abbreviation which can stand variously for ‘nomen nescio’, ‘nomen nominandum’, or ‘non nominato’. As used by Nissen, the abbreviation has the sense of ‘X’, as in ‘Mr. X’.⁴",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Alexander García Düttmann, Nicholas Walker, The Memory of Thought: An Essay on Heidegger and Adorno, Continuum International Publishing Group, page 218",
          "text": "The ‘that’ stands in a relation of gradual opposition to the name: the more illegible the name, the more exposed its bearer. Not only the artist: his work still bears his name, even if it also bears another name or title. What is true of the name of the artist is true in every case of the name of the work of art, unless, of course, the name of the artist remains unknown and the name of the work is known. From the name still to be named (nomen nominandum) and the unknown name (nomen nescio) no path, only a thrust leads to the mere bearer, the bearer without a name.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007: Jon Stewart, Kierkegaard’s Relations to Hegel Reconsidered, §10: “The Polemic with Heiberg in Prefaces”, page 419 (Cambridge University Press; →ISBN, 978-0521039512)",
          "text": "Prefaces appeared on June 17, 1844, the same day as The Concept of Anxiety. The pseudonymous author, Nicolaus Notabene, refers to himself in the text simply as N.N. These initials correspond, whether by accident or design, to the Latin phrase “nomen nescio”, or “I do not know the name”, which was a typical form of anonym."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "See the Latin section for definitions."
      ],
      "id": "en-nomen_nescio-en-noun-CwsYsPuE",
      "links": [
        [
          "the Latin section",
          "#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Latin phrase) See the Latin section for definitions."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "sense": "nomen nescio",
          "word": "nomen nominandum"
        },
        {
          "sense": "nomen nescio",
          "word": "non nominato"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "phrase"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnəʊmən ˈnɛsiəʊ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-nomen nescio.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-nomen_nescio.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-nomen_nescio.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-nomen_nescio.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-nomen_nescio.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nomen nescio"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "nōmen",
        "3": "",
        "4": "name"
      },
      "expansion": "nōmen (“name”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "nesciō",
        "3": "",
        "4": "I do not know"
      },
      "expansion": "nesciō (“I do not know”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From nōmen (“name”) + nesciō (“I do not know”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nōmen nesciō",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "phrase",
        "head": "nōmen nesciō"
      },
      "expansion": "nōmen nesciō",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin phrasebook",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A filler in a text that indicates an anonymous or non-specific person."
      ],
      "id": "en-nomen_nescio-la-phrase-oia4nDgC",
      "links": [
        [
          "anonymous",
          "anonymous#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "english": "abbreviated form",
          "word": "N.N."
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnoː.men ˈnes.ki.oː/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈnoːmɛn ˈnɛs̠kioː]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈno.men ˈneʃ.ʃi.o/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈnɔːmen ˈnɛʃːio]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nomen nescio"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "nōmen nesciō",
        "4": "",
        "5": "I do not know the name"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin nōmen nesciō (“I do not know the name”)",
      "name": "uder"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin nōmen nesciō (“I do not know the name”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nomina nescio",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nomina nescio"
      },
      "expansion": "nomen nescio (plural nomina nescio)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms derived from Latin",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English undefined derivations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Henrik Wenzel, Michael Hauschild, Leo Alting, “Environmental assessment of products”, in Methodology, tools and case studies in product development, volume 1, Kluwer Academic Publishers, page 208",
          "text": "As is evident in the figure, the allocation is always between one product and the average pool of products (product NN (nomen nescio)) which supplies or takes from the pool of material.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Alan Tyson, Sieghard Brandenburg, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven: Studies in the Music of the Classical Period — Essays in Honour of Alan Tyson, Oxford University Press, page 128",
          "text": "Firstly, a word concerning ‘N.N.’. It was Nissen’s usual practice when obliterating names in the autographs of the letters (a nickname is actually involved here, as we shall see) to write above or by them ‘N.N.’, an abbreviation which can stand variously for ‘nomen nescio’, ‘nomen nominandum’, or ‘non nominato’. As used by Nissen, the abbreviation has the sense of ‘X’, as in ‘Mr. X’.⁴",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Alexander García Düttmann, Nicholas Walker, The Memory of Thought: An Essay on Heidegger and Adorno, Continuum International Publishing Group, page 218",
          "text": "The ‘that’ stands in a relation of gradual opposition to the name: the more illegible the name, the more exposed its bearer. Not only the artist: his work still bears his name, even if it also bears another name or title. What is true of the name of the artist is true in every case of the name of the work of art, unless, of course, the name of the artist remains unknown and the name of the work is known. From the name still to be named (nomen nominandum) and the unknown name (nomen nescio) no path, only a thrust leads to the mere bearer, the bearer without a name.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007: Jon Stewart, Kierkegaard’s Relations to Hegel Reconsidered, §10: “The Polemic with Heiberg in Prefaces”, page 419 (Cambridge University Press; →ISBN, 978-0521039512)",
          "text": "Prefaces appeared on June 17, 1844, the same day as The Concept of Anxiety. The pseudonymous author, Nicolaus Notabene, refers to himself in the text simply as N.N. These initials correspond, whether by accident or design, to the Latin phrase “nomen nescio”, or “I do not know the name”, which was a typical form of anonym."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "See the Latin section for definitions."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "the Latin section",
          "#Latin"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Latin phrase) See the Latin section for definitions."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Latin",
        "phrase"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnəʊmən ˈnɛsiəʊ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-nomen nescio.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-nomen_nescio.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-nomen_nescio.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-nomen_nescio.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Persent101-nomen_nescio.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "nomen nescio",
      "word": "nomen nominandum"
    },
    {
      "sense": "nomen nescio",
      "word": "non nominato"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nomen nescio"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "nōmen",
        "3": "",
        "4": "name"
      },
      "expansion": "nōmen (“name”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "nesciō",
        "3": "",
        "4": "I do not know"
      },
      "expansion": "nesciō (“I do not know”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From nōmen (“name”) + nesciō (“I do not know”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nōmen nesciō",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "phrase",
        "head": "nōmen nesciō"
      },
      "expansion": "nōmen nesciō",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "phrase",
  "related": [
    {
      "english": "abbreviated form",
      "word": "N.N."
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Latin entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "Latin lemmas",
        "Latin multiword terms",
        "Latin phrasebook",
        "Latin phrases",
        "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A filler in a text that indicates an anonymous or non-specific person."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "anonymous",
          "anonymous#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnoː.men ˈnes.ki.oː/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈnoːmɛn ˈnɛs̠kioː]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈno.men ˈneʃ.ʃi.o/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈnɔːmen ˈnɛʃːio]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nomen nescio"
}