# νόμος
## Ancient Greek
### Alternative forms

* νοῦμμος (noûmmos) — Doric

### Etymology

From νέμω (némō, “I distribute”) +‎ -ος (-os).

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

νόμος • (nómos) m (genitive νόμου); second declension
* usage, custom
* law, ordinance
* melody, strain
* (music) ancient type of song
* kind of coin
* course of masonry

#### Derived terms

* ἀνομία (anomía)
* ἄνομος (ánomos)
* δευτερονόμιον (deuteronómion), Δευτερονόμιον (Deuteronómion)
* ἐπῐνομῐ́ς (epĭnomĭ́s)
* εὐνομέομαι (eunoméomai)
* εὐνόμημα (eunómēma)
* εὐνομία (eunomía)
* εὔνομος (eúnomos)
* νομίζω (nomízō)
* νομοθέτης (nomothétēs)
* οἰκονομία (oikonomía)

#### Descendants

* Greek: νόμος (nómos)
* Mariupol Greek: но́мус (nómus)
* → Aramaic: נמוסא
** Classical Syriac: ܢܡܘܣܐ (nāmōsā)
** Classical Mandaic: ࡍࡉࡌࡅࡎࡀ (nimusa)
** → Arabic: نَامُوس (nāmūs)
* → Classical Syriac: ܠܘܡܐ (lūmā) (see there for further descendants)
* → Coptic: ⲛⲟⲙⲟⲥ (nomos)
* → English: -nomy
* → Latin: nummus (through Doric)
** → English: nummus
* → Sogdian: 𐫗𐫇𐫖 (nwm /⁠nōm⁠/, “law, canon”)
** → Old Uyghur: 𐽺𐽳𐽹 (nwm /⁠nom⁠/, “religion, teaching; Buddhist scriptures; law, canon”) (see there for further descendants)
* → Hebrew: נימוס

### 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

* “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, 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, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

## Greek
### Etymology

Inherited from the Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈno.mos/

### Noun

νόμος • (nómos) m (plural νόμοι)
* law, rule, code
    Ο λόγος της ήταν νόμοςO lógos tis ítan nómosHer word was law.
* nome (type of musical composition in ancient Greece)

#### Derived terms

* ανόμημα n (anómima, “offence”)
* ανομία f (anomía, “lawlessness”)
* -νομία (-nomía, “-nomy”)
* τσιμπίδα του νόμου f (tsimpída tou nómou, “long arm of the law”)

### Further reading

* νόμος on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{el}$
* νόμος, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language