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单词 mutato nomine
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mutato nominephr.

Brit. /mjuːˌtɑːtəʊ ˈnəʊmᵻneɪ/, /mjuːˌtɑːtəʊ ˈnɒmᵻneɪ/, U.S. /mjuˌtɑdoʊ ˈnoʊməˌneɪ/, /mjuˌtɑdoʊ ˈnɑməˌneɪ/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin mutātō nōminē.
Etymology: < classical Latin mutātō nōminē, lit. ‘the name being changed’, ablative absolute phrase < mutātō , ablative singular of past participle of mūtāre to change (see mutate v.) + nōminē , ablative singular of nōmen name n.The phrase occurs in Horace's Satires 1. 1. 69; the relevant passage is sometimes quoted at greater length, as in the following early examples:1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy Democritus to Rdr. 37 Accounting it an excellent thing..to make our selues merry with other mens obliquities, when as he himselfe is more faultie then the rest, mutato nomine de te fabula narratur, he may take himselfe by the nose for a foole.1683 London Bully 2 What would you say if I should place before your eyes the Sentence of Horace, which says, Mutato nomine de te Fabula narratur; that is to say, It is you perhaps we speak of, and that there is only a change of Name.
Now rare.
With the name or names being changed (used with reference to an observation that remains applicable in a different context if the name of the person, place, etc., concerned is altered accordingly).
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the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [adverb] > by another name
mutato nomine1608
1608 J. Wycliffe Two Short Treat. Ep. Ded. sig. ¶3v For what is spoken of the one, mutato nomine may wel be vnderstood of the other.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Lincs. 153 Which Proverb, Mutato Nomine, is used in other Counties.
1828 J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. 9 146 Nobody would pretend that a man unacquainted with the properties of simple substances would be perfectly capable of performing such an analysis, or that the knowledge of the ultimate elements of bodies was of no service to the chemist. The same observations apply, mutato nomine, to the logician, and the syllogism.
1840 J. B. Fraser Trav. Koordistan II. vi. 152 The words of Burns, mutato nomine, describe their country exactly.
1860 W. M. Thackeray in Cornhill Mag. May 632 A score of such queer names and titles I have smiled at in America. And, mutato nomine?
1894 Cent. Mag. Oct. 837 It is all the same story, mutato nomine.
1988 Guardian 16 May 38/3 The opposition would be well advised to draw lessons from the affair rather than gloat at Government discomfiture; mutato nomine.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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