νόμος
See also: νομός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From νέμω (némō, “I distribute”) + -ος (-os).[1]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /nó.mos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈno.mos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈno.mos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈno.mos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈno.mos/
Noun
νόμος • (nómos) m (genitive νόμου); second declension
- usage, custom
- law, ordinance
- melody, strain
- (music) ancient type of song
- kind of coin
- course of masonry
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ νόμος ho nómos |
τὼ νόμω tṑ nómō |
οἱ νόμοι hoi nómoi | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ νόμου toû nómou |
τοῖν νόμοιν toîn nómoin |
τῶν νόμων tôn nómōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ νόμῳ tōî nómōi |
τοῖν νόμοιν toîn nómoin |
τοῖς νόμοις toîs nómois | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν νόμον tòn nómon |
τὼ νόμω tṑ nómō |
τοὺς νόμους toùs nómous | ||||||||||
| Vocative | νόμε nóme |
νόμω nómō |
νόμοι nómoi | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀνομία (anomía)
- ἄνομος (ánomos)
- δευτερονόμιον (deuteronómion), Δευτερονόμιον (Deuteronómion)
- ἐπῐνομῐ́ς (epĭnomĭ́s)
- εὐνομέομαι (eunoméomai)
- εὐνόμημα (eunómēma)
- εὐνομία (eunomía)
- εὔνομος (eúnomos)
- νομίζω (nomízō)
- νομοθέτης (nomothétēs)
- οἰκονομία (oikonomía)
Descendants
- Greek: νόμος (nómos)
- Mariupol Greek: но́мус (nómus)
- → Aramaic: נמוסא
- → Classical Syriac: ܠܘܡܐ (lūmā) (see there for further descendants)
- → Coptic: ⲛⲟⲙⲟⲥ (nomos)
- → English: -nomy
- → Latin: nummus (through Doric)
- → English: nummus
- → Sogdian: 𐫗𐫇𐫖 (nwm /nōm/, “law, canon”)
- → Old Uyghur: 𐽺𐽳𐽹 (nwm /nom/, “religion, teaching; Buddhist scriptures; law, canon”) (see there for further descendants)
- → Hebrew: נימוס
References
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “νέμω, -ομαι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1006-7
Further reading
- “νόμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νόμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- νόμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- “νόμος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G3551 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.
- bill idem, page 79.
- convention idem, page 173.
- conventionality idem, page 173.
- custom idem, page 191.
- enactment idem, page 270.
- fashion idem, page 308.
- formula idem, page 339.
- habit idem, page 380.
- law idem, page 479.
- number idem, page 563.
- ordinance idem, page 579.
- practice idem, page 631.
- regulation idem, page 688.
- restriction idem, page 706.
- rule idem, page 725.
- song idem, page 793.
- statute idem, page 813.
- strain idem, page 822.
- tune idem, page 900.
- wont idem, page 987.
- νόμος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Greek
Etymology
Inherited from the Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈno.mos/
Noun
νόμος • (nómos) m (plural νόμοι)
- law, rule, code
- Ο λόγος της ήταν νόμος
- O lógos tis ítan nómos
- Her word was law.
- nome (type of musical composition in ancient Greece)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | νόμος (nómos) | νόμοι (nómoi) |
| genitive | νόμου (nómou) | νόμων (nómon) |
| accusative | νόμο (nómo) | νόμους (nómous) |
| vocative | νόμε (nóme) | νόμοι (nómoi) |
Derived terms
- ανόμημα n (anómima, “offence”)
- ανομία f (anomía, “lawlessness”)
- -νομία (-nomía, “-nomy”)
- νόμος των εφαπτομένων (nómos ton efaptoménon)
- τσιμπίδα του νόμου f (tsimpída tou nómou, “long arm of the law”)
Further reading
- νόμος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
- νόμος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language