# νόημα
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* νῶμᾰ (nôma) — Ionic

### Etymology

From νοέω (noéō, “to intend, to perceive, to see, to understand”) +‎ -μᾰ (-ma).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nó.ɛː.ma/ → /ˈno.i.ma/ → /ˈno.i.ma/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /nó.ɛː.ma/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /ˈno.e̝.ma/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /ˈno.i.ma/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /ˈno.i.ma/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ˈno.i.ma/

### Noun

νόημᾰ • (nóēma) n (genitive νοήμᾰτος); third declension
* perception
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 7.36
** «τῶν νέες ὠκεῖαι ὡς εἰ πτερὸν ἠὲ νόημᾰ»
** ‘tō̂n nées ōkeîai hōs ei pteròn ēè nóēmă.’
** ‘and the ships of those [men] as swift as [a bird’s] wing or a thought’.
* thought, purpose, design
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.330
** «τὸν δ’ ἠείβετ’ ἔπειτᾰ θεᾱ̀ γλαυκῶπῐς Ἀ̆θήνη: ‹αἰεί τοι τοιοῦτον ἐνῐ στήθεσσῐ νόημᾰ:»
** ‘tòn d’ ēeíbet épeită t͡heā̀ glaukō̂pĭs Ăt͡hḗnē: “aieí toi toioûton enĭ stēt͡hessĭ nóēmă:’
** ‘and-but thereupon the bright-eyed Athena answered him: “ever is a thought such as this in the breasts:’
* understanding, mind
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 20.346
** «ὣς φᾰτο Τηλέμᾰχος : μνησῆσῐ δὲ Πᾰλλᾰς Ἀ̆θήνη ἄ̆σβεστον γέλω ὦρσε, πᾰρέπλᾰγξεν δὲ νόημᾰ.»
** ‘hṓs p͡hăto Tēlémăc͡hos: mnēsē̂sĭ dè Păllăs Ăt͡hḗnē ắsbeston gélō ō̂rse păréplăɡxen dè nóēmă.’
** ‘And-but Telemachos was saying [in his own interest]: “And-but amongst the wooers, Pallas Athena excited unquenchable laughter and turning the thought from the sane path.’

#### Related terms

* νοήμων (noḗmōn)
* νοητός (noētós)

### References

* “νόημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “νόημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “νόημα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* νόημα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* νόημα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “νόημα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G3540 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. conceit idem, page 154.concept idem, page 155.conception idem, page 155.fancy idem, page 306.idea idem, page 413.notion idem, page 562.thought idem, page 868.

## Greek
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek νόημα (nóēma, “thought, perception, understanding”), with semantic loan from German Noem, itself from the Ancient Greek term, and Wink (“sign, wave”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈno.i.ma/

### Noun

νόημα • (nóima) n (plural νοήματα)
* sense, meaning
* gesture

#### Declension

| | singular | plural |
| nominative | νόημα • | νοήματα • |
| genitive | νοήματος • | νοημάτων • |
| accusative | νόημα • | νοήματα • |
| vocative | νόημα • | νοήματα • |

#### Synonyms

* (meaning): σημασία f (simasía)
* (gesture): νεύμα n (névma)

#### Related terms

* νοημοσύνη f (noïmosýni, “intelligence”)

### References

* ↑ νόημα, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language