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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀ- (a-, without) + νόμος (nómos, “law, ordinance; melody”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /á.no.mos/ → /ˈa.no.mos/ → /ˈa.no.mos/
Adjective
ἄνομος • (ánomos) m or f (neuter ἄνομον); second declension
- lawless, impious
- without the Mosaic law, hence without God
- (music) unmusical, without melody
- (of a sequestration) illegal
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- “ἄνομος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἄνομος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἄνομος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄνομος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- anarchic idem, page 28.
- evil idem, page 286.
- lawless idem, page 480.
- licentious idem, page 488.
- profligate idem, page 653.
- sinful idem, page 777.
- unlawful idem, page 924.
- unnamed idem, page 926.
- unrighteous idem, page 930.
- unruly idem, page 930.
- unwarrantable idem, page 936.
- wicked idem, page 978.
- wrong idem, page 994.
- “ἄνομος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011