# nome
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /nəʊm/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (General American) enPR: nōm, IPA: /noʊm/
* Rhymes: -əʊm, -oʊm
* Homophones: Nome, gnome

### Etymology 1

From French nome, from Ancient Greek νομός (nomós, “district”), from νέμω (némō, “I divide”). Doublet of nomos.

#### Noun

nome (plural nomes)
* A prefecture or unit of regional government in Greece.
    Laconia is the southernmost nome in the Peloponnese.
* A territorial division of ancient Egypt.
** 1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings:Yet the part will be as the whole, and you will be the High Priest in this nome of Egypt.

##### Translations

Egyptian: (spꜣt f)
Esperanto: nomarĥio, nomarkio
Greek: νομός (el) m (nomós)
Polish: nom (pl) m
Portuguese: nomo (pt) m :

### Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos), from νέμω (némō, “I divide”). Differs from Etymology 1 in the position of Ancient Greek accent, though from the same root.

#### Noun

nome (plural nomes)
* A type of musical composition in Ancient Greece.

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

Contraction.

#### Interjection

nome
* (US, regional) Alternative form of no'm (“no ma'am”)
** 1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, Folio Society, published 2016, page 7:Mother said, “Is he cold, Versh.” “Nome.” Versh said.

### Etymology 4

The sense "term" is from French -nôme, second element of binôme etc., again from Ancient Greek νομός (nomós) here in its sense "division". The name of the special function may be identical or may be an independent borrowing from the Greek.

#### Noun

nome
* (mathematics, obsolete) A term in an algebraic expression.
* (mathematics) A special function with which elliptic functions and modular forms can be described.

#### References

* ↑ Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (N)

### Further reading

* Nome (melody) in the 1905 edition of the New International Encyclopedia.
* Nome (Egypt) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### See also

* nome sane

### Anagrams

* Nemo, meno-, mone, Meno, nemo, omen, Moen, meon, Meon, Mone, Emon, NEMO

## Aragonese
### Etymology

From Latin nōmen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnome/
* Rhymes: -ome
* Syllabification: no‧me

### Noun

nome m (plural nomes)
* name

## Asturian
### Alternative forms

* ñome
* nombre (Llanes)

### Etymology

From Latin nōmen, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnome/ [ˈno.me]
* Rhymes: -ome
* Syllabification: no‧me

### Noun

nome m (plural nomes)
* name
* noun

#### Synonyms

* (noun): sustantivu

#### Derived terms

* nome común
* nome propiu

#### Related terms

* nomar
* nombrar

## Bavarian
### Noun

nome
* (Sappada, Sauris) name

### References

* Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.

## Esperanto
### Etymology

nomo +‎ -e

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈnome]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ome
* Hyphenation: no‧me

### Adverb

nome
* namely

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese nome, from Latin nōmen, nōminis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnome/ [ˈnõ.mɪ]
* Rhymes: -ome
* Hyphenation: no‧me

### Noun

nome m (plural nomes)
* name
* (grammar) a noun, a substantive or adjective
    Synonyms: nome común, nome propio
* (figuratively) fame, renown
    Synonyms: fama, renome, sona

#### Derived terms

* a nome de
* en nome de

#### Related terms

* nomeado
* nomear

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “nome”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “nome”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “nome”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “nome”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “nome”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Istro-Romanian
### Etymology

From Latin nōmen, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥. Compare Romanian nume.

### Noun

nome (definite nomelu)
* name

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin nōmen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈno.me/, /ˈnɔ.me/
* Audio (Italy):(file)
* Rhymes: -ome, -ɔme
* Hyphenation: nó‧me, nò‧me

### Noun

nome m (plural nomi)
* name
* first name
    Synonyms: nome di battesimo, prenome
* name, reputation
    Synonyms: reputazione, fama
* (grammar) noun

#### Hyponyms

* (noun): nome aggettivo = aggettivo, nome sostantivo = sostantivo

#### Related terms

* a nome di
* cognome
* nome binomiale
* nome botanico
* nome comune
* nome d'arte
* nome da ragazza, nome da nubile
* nome di battaglia
* nome di dominio
* nome di host
* nome di luogo
* nome generico
* nome in codice
* nome proprio
* nome scientifico
* nome utente
* nominale
* nominare
* soprannome
* spazio dei nomi

### See also

* aggettivo
* articolo
* avverbio
* congiunzione
* interiezione ~ interjezione
* nome, sostantivo
* numero
* particella
* preposizione
* pronome
* verbo

### References

* ↑ nome in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* Meno, meno, meno-, menò

## Leonese
### Etymology

From Latin nōmen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnome/, [ˈno.me]
* Rhymes: -ome
* Hyphenation: no‧me

### Noun

nome m (plural nomes)
* name

### References

* nome at the Diccionario Castellano-Leonés / Leonés-Castellano.
* nome at the Pallabeiru Llïonés.

## Middle English
### Noun

nome (plural nomes)
* (West Midlands, Southern) Alternative form of name

## Mirandese
### Etymology

From Latin nōmen, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

### Noun

nome m (plural nomes)
* name

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* noment

### Adjective

nome
* neuter of nomen

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin nōmen (“name”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnome/

### Noun

nome m (plural nomes)
* name
** a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 111 (facsimile):
    […] Loado ſeia ſeu Nome.
       […] may his Name be praised.

#### Descendants

* Fala: nomi
* Galician: nome
* Portuguese: nome

## Portuguese
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese nome, from Latin nōmen (“name”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈnõ.mi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈnõ.mi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈno.me/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈno.mɨ/
* (Rural Central Brazil) IPA: /ˈno.mʲ/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -omɨ, (Brazil) -õmi, (Southern Brazil) -ome
* Hyphenation: no‧me

### Noun

nome m (plural nomes)
* name (word or phrase which identifies an individual person, place, class, or thing)
** 2000, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e a Câmara Secreta [Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets] (Harry Potter; 2), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 264:[...] e as letras do seu nome se rearrumaram.[...] and the letters of his name rearranged themselves.
* name (what somebody is known for)
    Preciso limpar meu nome.I must clear my name.
* (grammar) noun
* insult

#### Quotations

* For quotations using this term, see Citations:nome.

#### Synonyms

* (word indicating something): denominação
* (reputation): reputação
* (noun): substantivo

#### Derived terms

* conhecer de nome
* de nome
* em nome de
* nome científico
* nome civil
* nome comercial
* nome comum
* nome de família
* nome de guerra
* nome do pai
* nome morto
* nome popular
* nome próprio
* nome social
* nomezinho (diminutive), nominho (diminutive)

#### Related terms

* codinome
* cognome
* nomeação
* nomear
* nomenclatura
* nominal
* onomástica
* prenome
* sobrenome

#### Descendants

* Guinea-Bissau Creole: nomi
* Kabuverdianu: nómi
* Macanese: nómi

### Further reading

* “nome”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnome/ [ˈno.me]
* Rhymes: -ome
* Syllabification: no‧me

### Noun

nome m (plural nomes)
* (obsolete) name
    Synonym: nombre

#### Related terms

* nombrar

### Further reading

* “nome”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10