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It's fitting that Dr. Gracias's last name is Spanish for "thank you," as everything I have in my life is thanks to him.

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noun A word or words by which an entity is designated and distinguished from others.
noun A word or group of words used to describe or evaluate, often disparagingly.
noun Representation or repute, as opposed to reality: a democracy in name, a police state in fact.

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A word by which a person or thing is denoted; the word or words by which an individual person or thing, or a class of persons or things, is designated, and distinguished from others; appellation; denomination; designation. In most communities of European civilization at the present day the name a person bears is double—consisting of the family name or surname and the Christian or distinctively personal name, which latter ordinarily precedes the surname, but in some countries stands last. Either of these name-elements may and (the personal name especially) often does consist of two or more names as component parts. An ancient Roman of historical times had necessarily two names, one distinguishing his family or gens, the nomen, or nomen gentilicium, and the other, the prenomen, distinguishing the individual: as. Caius Marius—that is, Caius of the gens of the Marii. Every Roman citizen belonged also to a familia, a branch or subdivision of his gens, and hence had or might have a third name, or cognomen, referring to the familia. This cognomen was always borne by men of patrician estate; and in the case of men of distinction a fourth name or epithet (cognomen secundum, or agnomen) was sometimes added, in reference to some notable achievement of the individual: thus, Lucius Cornelius Scipio Asiaticus was Lucius, of the Scipio branch of the Cornelian gens, who had won personal distinction in Asia. Women as a rule bore only the feminine form of the nomen of their gens: as, Cornelia, Tullia. But sometimes, especially at a comparatively late date, they received also an individual prenomen, which was the feminine form of the prenomen of the husband, or, still later, was given to them, as in the case of boys, in infancy. Ye Aldirman schal elepene vpe ij. men be name. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 276. But, gode sir, neuenes me thi name? York Plays, p. 474. If I may be so fortunate to deserve The name of friend from you, I have enough. Beau. and Fl., Laws of Candy, ii. 1. By the Tyranny of Tarquinius Superbus (the last Roman King) the very Name of King became hateful to the People. Congreve, tr. of Juvenal's Satires, xi., note. There is a fault which, though common, wants a name. It is the very contrary to procrastination. Steele, Spectator, No. 374.
Figuratively, an individual as represented by his name; a person as existing in the memory or thoughts of others. Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. Acts iv. 12.
That which is commonly said of a person; reputation; character: as, a good name; a bad name; a name for benevolence. A good name many folde ys more worthe then golde. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 42. I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. Rev. iii. 1.

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Fittingly enough, the shop's name is Punjabi for "God's grace." — Independent Weekly: All Recent Stories
The name is Arabic for tiger, though it's the car's tag line - "the world's fastest hybrid" - that really packs a bite. — Wheels
Malort-the name is Swedish for wormwood-descends from a family of bitter schnapps said to be good for digestion.
Must I, like John the Baptist, be the lone wailing voice shrilly observing that Kaka's name is Latin for whoopsie? — Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk
Outspoken, thoroughly outrageous, endearing, occasionally obnoxious, and always clever serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis has launched Mahalo, a human-powered search engine whose name is Hawaiian for "Thank you." — Bessed - The Best of Everything

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Middle English, from Old English nama; see nŏ̄-men- in Indo-European roots.

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from Middle English name, nome, from . Anglo-Saxon nama, noma = Old Saxon namo = OFries. nema, nama, noma = Middle Dutch naem, Dutch naam = Middle Low German name, Low German name = Old High German namo, Middle High German name, nam, German name, namen = Icelandic nafn (for *namn) = Swedish namn = Danish navn = Gothic (Moesogothic) namō = Latin nōmen, for *gnōmen (as in agnomen, cognomen) (later Italian Portuguese nome = Spanish nombre = French nom, Old French non, nun, noun, later English noun), = Greek ὄνομα, ὄνυμα, οὔνομα (ὀνοματ -) (for *ο̄γνομα, *ὀγνομαν-?) = Sanskrit nāman (for *jnāman?) = Persian nām (later Hind, nām), name; apparently literally ‘that by which a thing is known,’ from the root *gno, Teutonic *knā, Greek γιγνώσκειν, Latin noscere, *gnoscere = Anglo-Saxon cnāwan, English know (see know), but this view ignores phonetic difficulties in the relations of the above forms, and fails to explain the apparently cognate Irish ainm, Welsh enw, and Old Bulgarian ime = Servian ime = Bohemian jme, jmeno = Polish imie = Russian imya = Old Prussian emnes, name. It seems probable that all the words cited are actually related, and that the apparently irregularities are due to interference or conformation. From the L. form are ult. E, nominal, nominate, etc., cognomen, etc., noun, pronoun, renown, etc., with the technical nome, nomen, agnomen, nomial, binomial, etc.; from the Greek are ult. English synonym, paronym, patronymic, metronymic, etc., onym, mononym, polyonymous, etc. From the English noun are name, v., neven.
from Middle English namen, from Anglo-Saxon genamian = Old Saxon namōn = OFries. nomia, nama, from the noun: see name, n. The usual verb in older use was early modern English neven, nemne, from Middle English nevnen, nemnen, nemmen, from Anglo-Saxon nemnan, nemnian: see neven.

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