ἄνομος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀ- (a-, without) + νόμος (nómos, “law, ordinance; melody”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /á.no.mos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈa.no.mos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈa.no.mos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈa.no.mos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈa.no.mos/
Adjective
ἄνομος • (ánomos) m or f (neuter ἄνομον); second declension
- lawless, impious
- without the Mosaic law, hence without God
- (music) unmusical, without melody
- (of a sequestration) illegal
Declension
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
| Nominative | ἄνομος ánomos |
ἄνομον ánomon |
ἀνόμω anómō |
ἀνόμω anómō |
ἄνομοι ánomoi |
ἄνομᾰ ánomă | ||||||||
| Genitive | ἀνόμου anómou |
ἀνόμου anómou |
ἀνόμοιν anómoin |
ἀνόμοιν anómoin |
ἀνόμων anómōn |
ἀνόμων anómōn | ||||||||
| Dative | ἀνόμῳ anómōi |
ἀνόμῳ anómōi |
ἀνόμοιν anómoin |
ἀνόμοιν anómoin |
ἀνόμοις anómois |
ἀνόμοις anómois | ||||||||
| Accusative | ἄνομον ánomon |
ἄνομον ánomon |
ἀνόμω anómō |
ἀνόμω anómō |
ἀνόμους anómous |
ἄνομᾰ ánomă | ||||||||
| Vocative | ἄνομε ánome |
ἄνομον ánomon |
ἀνόμω anómō |
ἀνόμω anómō |
ἄνομοι ánomoi |
ἄνομᾰ ánomă | ||||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| ἀνόμως anómōs |
ἀνομώτερος anomṓteros |
ἀνομώτᾰτος anomṓtătos | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- ἀνομέω (anoméō)
- ἀνόμημᾰ (anómēmă)
- ἀνομῐ́ᾱ (anomĭ́ā)
Further reading
- “ἄνομος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄνομος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄνομος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄνομος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- anarchic idem, page 28.
- evil idem, page 286.
- lawless idem, page 480.
- licentious idem, page 488.
- profligate idem, page 653.
- sinful idem, page 777.
- unlawful idem, page 924.
- unnamed idem, page 926.
- unrighteous idem, page 930.
- unruly idem, page 930.
- unwarrantable idem, page 936.
- wicked idem, page 978.
- wrong idem, page 994.
- ἄνομος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011