The story
- Latin · borrowed fromnomen sacrum“holy name”
- English todaynomen sacrum
Unadapted borrowing from Latin nomen sacrum (“holy name”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
nomen sacrum
Today it means: An abbreviation of a commonly-occurring holy name or title in early Christian manuscripts, consisting of at least two letters from the full spelling spanned by an overline. Full definition →
Latin nomen sacrum