νόμος

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• νοῦμμος (noûmmos) — Doric

Etymology

From νέμω (némō, “I distribute”).

Pronunciation

Noun

νόμος • (nómos) m (genitive νόμου); second declension

1. usage, custom
2. law, ordinance
3. melody, strain
4. (music) ancient type of song
5. kind of coin
6. course of masonry

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Aramaic: נמוסא
  • Classical Syriac: ܢܡܘܣܐ (nāmōsā)
  • Classical Mandaic: ࡍࡉࡌࡅࡎࡀ (nimusa)
  • → Arabic: نَامُوس (nāmūs)
• → Coptic: ⲛⲟⲙⲟⲥ (nomos)
• Greek: νόμος (nómos)
• Mariupol Greek: но́мус (nómus)
• → Latin: nummus (through Doric)
  • → English: nummus
• → Sogdian: 𐫗𐫇𐫖 (nwm /⁠nōm⁠/, “law, canon”)
  • → Old Uyghur: ᠨᠤᠮ (nom, “book; Buddhist scripture”)
    • → Middle Mongol:
      • Classical Mongolian: ᠨᠣᠮ (nom)
        • Mongolian: ном (nom)
        • → Shor: ном
        • → Tuvan: ном (nom)
      • Buryat: ном (nom)
• → Hebrew: נימוס

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 - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.

Greek

Etymology

Inherited from the Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈno.mos/

Noun

νόμος • (nómos) m (plural νόμοι)

1. law, rule, code

   Ο λόγος της ήταν νόμος

   O lógos tis ítan nómos

   Her word was law.

2. nome (type of musical composition in ancient Greece)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• νόμος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el
• νόμος - Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.