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nome¹

  • /nəʊm/ UK
  • /noʊm/ US

Sounds like Nome, gnome · Rhymes with -əʊm

Where it comes from

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

noun nomes

  1. A prefecture or unit of regional government in Greece. Laconia is the southernmost nome in the Peloponnese.
  2. A territorial division of ancient Egypt. Yet the part will be as the whole, and you will be the High Priest in this nome of Egypt.

nome²

  • /nəʊm/ UK
  • /noʊm/ US

Sounds like Nome, gnome · Rhymes with -əʊm

Where it comes from

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

noun nomes

  1. A type of musical composition in Ancient Greece.

nome³

  • /nəʊm/ UK
  • /noʊm/ US

Sounds like Nome, gnome · Rhymes with -əʊm

Where it comes from

Contraction.

interjection

  1. US, alternative, regional Alternative form of no'm (“no ma'am”). Mother said, “Is he cold, Versh.” “Nome.” Versh said.

nome⁴

  • /nəʊm/ UK
  • /noʊm/ US

Sounds like Nome, gnome · Rhymes with -əʊm

Where it comes from

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

  1. obsolete A term in an algebraic expression.
  2. A special function with which elliptic functions and modular forms can be described.

Nome⁵

  • /noʊm/ US

Sounds like nome, gnome · Rhymes with -oʊm

proper noun

  1. A city and seaport on the Seward Peninsula, West Alaska.
  2. A census area on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska, which includes St. Lawrence Island.
  3. A cape in West Alaska.
  4. A river in Alaska.
  5. A minor city in Barnes County, North Dakota.
  6. A minor city in Jefferson County and Liberty County, Texas.
  7. A municipality in Telemark county, Norway, with its headquarters in Ulefoss.
  8. A rural locality in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

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noun prefecture in (modern) Greece

Ελληνικάνομός nomós

noun territorial division of ancient Egypt

Portuguêsnomo
Ελληνικάνομός nomós

noun type of musical composition in ancient Greece

Ελληνικάνόμος nómos

name seaport

FrançaisNome
РусскийНом Nom

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@misc{nome_2026,
  title = {nome},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nome},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}