Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• νοῦμμος ‎(noûmmos) (Doric)

Noun

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

1. custom
2. law, ordinance
3. ancient type of song

Derived terms

Declension

Descendants

• Greek: νόμος ‎(nómos)
• Latin: nummus (through Doric)
• Syriac: ܢܡܘܣܐ ‎(nāmōsā)

References

• 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’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bill idem, page 79.
  • convention idem, page 171.
  • conventionality idem, page 171.
  • 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.

Greek

Etymology

Inherited from the Ancient Greek νόμος ‎(nómos).

Noun

νόμος • ‎(nómos) m ‎(plural νόμοι)

1. law, rule, code

   Ο λόγος της ήταν νόμος.

   Her word was law.

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

Declension

Derived terms

• τσιμπίδα του νόμου f ‎(tsimpída tou nómou, “long arm of the law”)