No. 4,239 in French

dénommé

Named, referred to, or called.

In a sentence

Le livre est écrit par un auteur dénommé Jules.
The book is written by an author named Jules.
In this context, 'dénommé' is used to specify the assigned name of the author.
Une personne dénommée Léa a laissé un message pour toi.
A person named Lea left a message for you.
Here, 'dénommé' is applied to identify the person mentioned by name.
Le projet, dénommé Horizon, est lancé cette semaine.
The project, named Horizon, is launched this week.
The usage of 'dénommé' in this case serves to assign a specific identifier to the project.

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