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 Translation for 'proper name' from English to Danish
NOUN   a proper name | proper names
SYNO proper name | proper noun
ling.
proper name
egennavn {n}
ling.
proper name
proprium {n}
Partial Matches
proper {adj}passende
proper {adj}rigtig
ling.
proper noun
egennavn {n}
namenavn {n}
mil.
code name
dæknavn {n} [for spion]
street namegadenavn {n}
cover namedæknavn {n}
first namefornavn {n}
hence the namederaf navnet
What's your name?Hvad hedder du?
My name is Frank.Jeg hedder Frank.
What's your name?Hvad er dit navn?
to name sb./sth. after sb./sth.at opkalde ngn./ngt. efter ngn./ngt.
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Usage Examples English
  • might be prefixed to indicate that a word was a proper name, but this convention was not included in the 1999 "Handbook", which notes the contrary use of the asterisk as a placeholder for a sound or feature that does not have a symbol.
  • Base16 (as a proper name without a space) can also refer to a binary to text encoding belonging to the same family as Base32, Base58, and Base64.
  • Thus, the Ancient Greek name Eleutherios forms the Modern Greek proper name Lefteris, and former vernacular practice (prefixing the surname to the proper name) was to call John Eleutherios Leftero-giannis.
  • According to the direct-reference view, an early version of which was originally proposed by Bertrand Russell, and perhaps earlier by Gottlob Frege, a proper name strictly has no meaning when there is no object to which it refers.
  • While not offering a general definition, he describes that in his book "whenever "diabolos" is used as the proper name of Satan", he signals it by using "small caps".

  • Often the word takes the definite article and is capitalized — "the Divinity" — as though it were a proper name or definitive honorific.
  • Russell offered his theory of descriptions in part as a way of defining a proper name, the definition being given by a definite description that "picks out" exactly one individual.
  • use of the definite article before the word Christ and its gradual development into a proper name show the Christians identified the bearer with the promised Messias of the Jews.
  • was the proper name for the Aegean Sea. Later, usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands (since the sea has a large number of islands).
  • In 2016, the International Astronomical Union Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) approved the proper name "Aldebaran" for this star.

  • Among mathematical adjectives derived from the proper name of a mathematician, the word "abelian" is rare in that it is often spelled with a lowercase a, rather than an uppercase A, the lack of capitalization being a tacit acknowledgment not only of the degree to which Abel's name has been institutionalized but also of how ubiquitous in modern mathematics are the concepts introduced by him.
  • Subsequently "Efendi" happened to be the proper name as "Affandi" in Central Asia for Nasreddin Hoja.
  • While "Nomic" is traditionally capitalized as the proper name of the game it describes, it has also sometimes been used in a more informal way as a lowercased generic term, "nomic", referring to anything with Nomic-like characteristics, including games where the rules may be changed during play as well as non-gaming situations where it can be alleged that "rules lawyers" are tinkering with the process used to amend rules and policies (in an organization or community) in a manner akin to a game of Nomic.
  • Sigma Librae (the proper name is Brachium Libra's status as the location of the equinox earned the equinox the name "First Point of Libra", though this location ceased to coincide with the constellation in 730 BC because of the precession of the equinoxes. ...
  • , 'to raise, stir, excite', and the proper name [...] have been suggested.

  • Even though the name Dorado is not Latin but Spanish, astronomers give it the Latin genitive form "Doradus" when naming its stars; it is treated (like the adjacent asterism Argo Navis) as a feminine proper name of Greek origin ending in -ō (like "Io" or "Callisto" or "Argo"), which have a genitive ending "-ūs".
  • (roughly pronounced oh-hee-yoh, with the vowel in "hee" held longer), a proper name derived from [...] ("good river"), therefore literally translating to "Good River".
  • This expression as a proper name for the pandemic had been popularized by Swedish and Danish chroniclers in the 15th and early 16th centuries, and in the 16th and 17th centuries was transferred to other languages as a calque: [...] , [...] , and [...].
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