νόημα

• νῶμᾰ (nômă) — Ionic

From νοέω (noéō, “to intend, to perceive, to see, to understand”) +‎ -μᾰ (-mă).

νόημᾰ • (nóēmă) n (genitive νοήμᾰτος); third declension

1. perception
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 7.36:

     τῶν νέες ὠκεῖαι ὡς εἰ πτερὸν ἠὲ νόημᾰ

     tôn nées ōkeîai hōs ei pteròn ēè nóēmă

     and the ships of those [men] as swift as [a bird's] wing or as a thought

2. thought, purpose, design
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.330:

     αἰεί τοι τοιοῦτον ἐνῐ στήθεσσῐ νόημᾰ

     aieí toi toioûton enĭ stḗthessĭ nóēmă

     ever is a thought such as this in the breasts

3. understanding, mind
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 20.345–346:

     ὣς φᾰ́το Τηλέμᾰχος· μνηστῆρσῐ δὲ Πᾰλλᾰ̀ς Ᾰ̓θήνη // ᾰ̓́σβεστον γέλω ὦρσε, πᾰρέπλᾰγξεν δὲ νόημᾰ.

     hṑs phắto Tēlémăkhos; mnēstêrsĭ dè Păllằs Ăthḗnē // ắsbeston gélō ôrse, păréplănxen dè nóēmă.

     Thus spoke Telemachus, but among the suitors Pallas Athene aroused unquenchable laughter, and turned their wits awry.

• νοήμων (noḗmōn)
• νοητός (noētós)

• “νόημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νόημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “νόημα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• νόημα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• νόημα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “νόημα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G3540 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • conceit idem, page 154.
  • concept idem, page 155.
  • conception idem, page 155.
  • fancy idem, page 306.
  • idea idem, page 413.
  • notion idem, page 562.
  • thought idem, page 868.

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek νόημα (nóēma, “thought, perception, understanding”), with semantic loan from German Noem, itself from the Ancient Greek term, and Wink (“sign, wave”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈno.i.ma/

νόημα • (nóima) n (plural νοήματα)

1. sense, meaning
2. gesture

• (meaning): σημασία f (simasía)
• (gesture): νεύμα n (névma)

• νοημοσύνη f (noïmosýni, “intelligence”)