nome

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See also: Nome, nomé, nõme, ñome, and -nôme

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Noun

nome (plural nomes)

  2. A prefecture or unit of regional government in Greece.
    Laconia is the southernmost nome in the Peloponnese.
  3. 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

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)

  2. A type of musical composition in Ancient Greece.
Translations

Etymology 3

Contraction.

Interjection

nome

  2. (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

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

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

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

References

  1. ^ Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (N)

Further reading

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Anagrams

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin nomen.

Noun

nome

  1. name

Asturian

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

nome m (plural nomes)

  1. name
  2. noun

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Bavarian

Noun

nome

  1. (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

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  • Rhymes: -ome
  • Hyphenation: no‧me

Adverb

nome

  1. namely

Galician

Names (nomes) and signatures on a 10th century Galician charter: Mirellus, Viliefredus, Sedeges, Euenandus, Adolinus...

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

nome m (plural nomes)

  1. name
  2. (grammar) a noun, a substantive or adjective
    Synonyms: nome común, nome propio
  3. (figuratively) fame, renown

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References

  • “nome” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “nome” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “nome” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “nome” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “nome” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Istro-Romanian

Etymology

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

Noun

nome (definite nomelu)

  1. name

Italian

Etymology

From Latin nōmen

Pronunciation

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

Noun

nome m (plural nomi)

  1. name
  2. first name
    Synonyms: nome di battesimo, prenome
  3. name, reputation
    Synonyms: reputazione, fama
  4. (grammar) noun

Hyponyms

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See also

References

  1. ^ nome in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Anagrams

Leonese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

nome m (plural nomes)

  1. name

References

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English noma, variant of nama.

Noun

nome (plural nomes)

  1. Alternative form of name

Mirandese

Etymology

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

Noun

nome m (plural nomes)

  1. name

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Adjective

nome

  1. neuter of nomen

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

nome m

  1. name

Descendants

  • Fala: nomi
  • Galician: nome
  • Portuguese: nome

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

  • (Rural Central Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈno.mʲ/
  • Hyphenation: no‧me

Noun

nome m (plural nomes)

  1. name (word or phrase which identifies an individual person, place, class, or thing)
  2. name (what somebody is known for)
    Preciso limpar meu nome.
    I must clear my name.
  3. (grammar) noun
  4. insult

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:nome.

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Descendants

Spanish

Noun

nome m (plural nomes)

  1. (obsolete) name
    Synonym: nombre

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Further reading

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