nome

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /nəʊm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) enPR: nōm, IPA^(key): /noʊm/
• Rhymes: -əʊm, -oʊm
• Homophones: Nome, gnome

From French nome, from Ancient Greek νομός (nomós, “district”), from νέμω (némō, “I divide”). Doublet of nomos.

nome (plural nomes)

2. A prefecture or unit of regional government in Greece.

   Laconia is the southernmost nome in the Peloponnese.

3. A territorial division of ancient Egypt.
   • 1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings:

     Yet the part will be as the whole, and you will be the High Priest in this nome of Egypt.

From Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos), from νέμω (némō, “I divide”). Differs from Etymology 1 in the position of Ancient Greek accent, though from the same root.

nome (plural nomes)

2. A type of musical composition in Ancient Greece.

Contraction.

nome

2. (US, regional) Alternative form of no'm (“no ma'am”).
   • 1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, Folio Society, published 2016, page 7:

     Mother said, “Is he cold, Versh.”
     “Nome.” Versh said.

The sense "term" is from French -nôme, second element of binôme etc., again from Ancient Greek νομός (nomós) here in its sense "division". The name of the special function may be identical or may be an independent borrowing from the Greek.^[1]

nome

2. (mathematics, obsolete) A term in an algebraic expression.
3. (mathematics) A special function with which elliptic functions and modular forms can be described.

• Nome (melody) in the 1905 edition of the New International Encyclopedia.
• Nome (Egypt) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• nome sane

• Nemo, meno-, mone, Meno, nemo, omen, Moen, meon, Meon, Mone, Emon, NEMO

From Latin nōmen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnome/
• Syllabification: no‧me
• Rhymes: -ome

nome m (plural nomes)

1. name

• ñome
• nombre (Llanes)

From Latin nōmen, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnome/ [ˈno.me]
• Rhymes: -ome
• Syllabification: no‧me

nome m (plural nomes)

1. name
2. noun

• (noun): sustantivu

• nome común
• nome propiu

• nomar
• nombrar

nome

1. (Sappada, Sauris) name

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.

nomo +‎ -e

• IPA^(key): /ˈnome/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ome
• Hyphenation: no‧me

nome

1. namely

From Old Galician-Portuguese nome, from Latin nōmen, nōminis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnome/ [ˈnõ.mɪ]
• Rhymes: -ome
• Hyphenation: no‧me

nome m (plural nomes)

1. name
2. (grammar) a noun, a substantive or adjective

   Synonyms: nome común, nome propio

3. (figuratively) fame, renown

   Synonyms: fama, renome, sona

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “nome”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “nome”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “nome”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “nome”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “nome”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From nomo +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnome/
• Hyphenation: no‧me

nome

1. namely (specifically)

• nome in Ido-English Dictionary by L.H. Dyer, 1924

From Latin nōmen, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥. Compare Romanian nume.

nome (definite nomelu)

1. name

From Latin nōmen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈno.me/, /ˈnɔ.me/^[1]

• Audio (Italy):

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• Rhymes: -ome, -ɔme
• Hyphenation: nó‧me, nò‧me

nome m (plural nomi)

1. name
2. first name

   Synonyms: nome di battesimo, prenome

3. name, reputation

   Synonyms: reputazione, fama

4. (grammar) noun

• (noun): nome aggettivo = aggettivo, nome sostantivo = sostantivo

• Meno, meno, meno-, menò

From Latin nōmen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnome/, [ˈno.me]
• Rhymes: -ome
• Hyphenation: no‧me

nome m (plural nomes)

1. name

• nome at the Diccionario Castellano-Leonés / Leonés-Castellano.
• nome at the Pallabeiru Llïonés.

nome (plural nomes)

1. (West Midlands, Southern) alternative form of name

From Latin nōmen, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

nome m (plural nomes)

1. name

• noment

nome

1. neuter of nomen

• nāme

• IPA^(key): /ˈnoː.me/

nōme

1. second-person singular preterite indicative of niman
2. first/third-person singular preterite subjunctive of niman

Inherited from Latin nōmen (“name”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnome/

nome m (plural nomes)

1. name
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 111 (facsimile):

     […] Loado ſeia ſeu Nome.

     […] may his Name be praised.

• Fala: nomi
• Galician: nome
• Portuguese: nome

From Old Galician-Portuguese nome, from Latin nōmen (“name”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

• (Rural Central Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈno.mʲ/
• Rhymes: (Portugal) -omɨ, (Brazil) -õmi, (Southern Brazil) -ome
• Hyphenation: no‧me

nome m (plural nomes)

1. name (word or phrase which identifies an individual person, place, class, or thing)
   • 2000, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e a Câmara Secreta [Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets] (Harry Potter; 2), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 264:

     [...] e as letras do seu nome se rearrumaram.

     [...] and the letters of his name rearranged themselves.

2. name (what somebody is known for)

   Preciso limpar meu nome.

   I must clear my name.

3. (grammar) noun
   1. (grammar, loosely) substantive or adjective
4. insult (used in the expression chamar nomes)

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:nome.

• (word indicating something): denominação
• (reputation): reputação
• (noun): substantivo

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: nomi
• Kabuverdianu: nómi
• Macanese: nómi

• “nome”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “nome”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈnome/ [ˈno.me]
• Rhymes: -ome
• Syllabification: no‧me

nome m (plural nomes)

1. (obsolete) name

   Synonym: nombre

• “nome”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024