# νομίζω
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From νόμος (nómos, “custom”) +‎ -ίζω (-ízō, denominative verb suffix).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /no.míz.dɔː/ → /noˈmi.zo/ → /noˈmi.zo/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /no.míz.dɔː/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /noˈmi.zo/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /noˈmi.zo/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /noˈmi.zo/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /noˈmi.zo/

### Verb

νομίζω • (nomízō)
* to use customarily, practise, hold to a custom, customarily hold
** 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Timarchus 13
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1046
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 32
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 423
** 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 1003
** 620 BCE – 500 BCE, Alcaeus of Mytilene, Supplementary Fragments 24
** 480 BCE – 411 BCE, Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 5.82
** 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 962
** 388 BCE, Aristophanes, Plutus 1185
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1275b.7
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1331a.32
** 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 243
** 438 BCE, Euripides, Alcestis 99
** 405 BCE, Euripides, The Bacchae 71
** 485 BCE – 380 BCE, Gorgias, Fragments 6D
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.173
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.42
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.27
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.97
** 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, Aegineticus 33
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Isthmian Ode 2.38
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 327
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 86
** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1603
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.25
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.32
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 4.5.14
** (legislation) to enact
*** 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, Collected Works 37.20
*** 155 CE – 235 CE, Cassius Dio, Collected Works 78.22
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.5.3
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta 1.7
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta 2.4
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Constitution of Sparta 12.3
** (with dative) to make use of, use
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.50
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.63
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.117
*** 170 CE – 250 CE, Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1.15
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Eryxias 400b
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.77
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.38
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.82
** (with infinitive) to be accustomed to doing
*** 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 498
*** 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 1420
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.131
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.202
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.15
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 6.138
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.15
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 2.4.36
* to acknowledge, consider as
** 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 169
** 472 BCE, Aeschylus, The Persians 497
** 423 BCE, Aristophanes, The Clouds 143
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Politics 1293b.22
** 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Boeotus 2 47
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.1
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.51
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 4.59
** 500 BCE – 400 BCE, Parmenides, On Nature 6.8
** 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 24b
** 399 BCE, Plato, Euthyphro 3b
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 879c
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 908c
** 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Menexenus 237d
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 322a
** 385 BCE – 380 BCE, Plato, Symposium 202d
** 442 BCE, Sophocles, Antigone 183
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 1317
** 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 610
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Apology 24b
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.1.1
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Symposium 8.35
** to esteem, hold in honour
*** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Eratosthenes 9
*** 380 BCE, Plato, Gorgias 466b
** (with accusative of object) to hold, believe
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Minos 320b
*** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Phaedrus 258c
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.81
** (with accusative and infinitive) to deem, hold, believe that
*** 400 BCE – 300 BCE, Aeneas Tacticus, How to Survive under Siege 2.3
*** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.16
*** 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Agoratus 6
*** 406 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 800
*** 429 BCE, Sophocles, Oedipus the King 549
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.3
*** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.24
*** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 3.4.11

#### Synonyms

* νομῐτεύομαι (nomĭteúomai)

#### Derived terms

* ἀνόμιστος (anómistos)
* ἀντινομίζομαι (antinomízomai)
* ἀπονομίζω (aponomízō)
* κατανομίζω (katanomízō)
* νόμῐσῐς (nómĭsĭs)
* νόμισμᾰ (nómismă)
* νομιστέος (nomistéos)
* νομιστέος (nomistéos)
* νομιστεύομαι (nomisteúomai)
* νομιστί (nomistí)
* νομιστός (nomistós)
* προσνομίζω (prosnomízō)
* συννομίζω (sunnomízō)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “νέμω, -ομαι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1006-7

### Further reading

* “νομίζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “νομίζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “νομίζω”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G3543 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

## Greek
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek νομίζω (nomízō).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /noˈmizo/
* Hyphenation: νο‧μί‧ζω

### Verb

νομίζω • (nomízo) (past νόμισα, passive νομίζομαι)
* to think, consider, opine
    Νομίζω ότι η μητέρα του ζει.Nomízo óti i mitéra tou zei.I think that his mother is alive.
    Νομιζόμουν για καλός μαθητής από τους καθηγητές μου, αλλά απέτυχα στις εξετάσεις.Nomizómoun gia kalós mathitís apó tous kathigités mou, allá apétycha stis exetáseis.I was regarded as a good student by my professors, but I failed my exams.

#### Synonyms

* θεωρώ (theoró, “consider, regard”)
* υπολογίζω (ypologízo, “calculate, estimate”)
* (passive: of νομίζομαι): λογίζομαι (logízomai, “to be regarded, considered”)

### See also

* πιστεύω (pistévo, “to believe”)