nam Conjunction

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Translations

  1. namely
  2. because
  3. since
  4. for

Example Sentences

Publius Ovidius Naso

In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas corpora; di, coeptis (nam vos mutastis et illas) adspirate meis primaque ab origine mundi ad mea perpetuum deducite tempora carmen!

~ Ovid, Metamorphoses I
Gaius Julius Caesar

Is pagus appellabatur Tigurinus; nam omnis civitas Helvetia in quattuor pagos divisa est.

~ Caesar, Bellum Gallicum I
Hyginus

Nam ab Ariete incipiens ver ostendit; et Taurum et Geminos transiens, idem significat.

~ Hyginus, De Astronomia I

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