nomen appellativum

Noun

 * 1)  common noun
 * 2) * 1825, George Walker (translator, editor), I. J. G. Scheller (German author), A copious Latin grammar. Translated from the German, with alterations, notes and additions. In two volumes. Vol. I., London, p. 38:
 * But a name which belongs to several things of one kind is called a common name (nomen appellativum); as flumen, flood; rex, king; homo, man.


 * 1) * 1855, Leonhard Schmitz (translator, editor), C. G. Zumpt (German author), A Grammar of the Latin Language. Translated from the ninth edition of the original, and adapted to the use of English students. Fourth edition, London, p. 26:
 * N OUNS substantive are either proper (nomina propria), i. e. the names of one particular person or thing, or common (nomina appellativa), i. e. such as denote persons or things in so far as they belong to a class.
 * N OUNS substantive are either proper (nomina propria), i. e. the names of one particular person or thing, or common (nomina appellativa), i. e. such as denote persons or things in so far as they belong to a class.