Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

νόμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νόμος

Structure: νομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. anything assigned, a usage, custom, law, ordinance, custom, custom or law, law, by custom, conventionally
  2. by the law of force, in the fight or scuffle, in actual warfare, to blows
  3. a musical mode or strain
  4. a song, tunes

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ ἐλάλησε πρὸσ τὸν βασιλέα Ἀρταξέρξησ λέγων. ὑπάρχει ἔθνοσ διεσπαρμένον ἐν τοῖσ ἔθνεσιν ἐν πάσῃ τῇ βασιλείᾳ σου, οἱ δὲ νόμοι αὐτῶν ἔξαλλοι παρὰ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη, τῶν δὲ νόμων τοῦ βασιλέωσ παρακούουσι, καὶ οὐ συμφέρει τῷ βασιλεῖ ἐᾶσαι αὐτούσ. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 3:8)
  • ἐὰν παύσωνται οἱ νόμοι οὗτοι ἀπὸ προσώπου μου, φησὶ Κύριοσ, καὶ τὸ γένοσ Ἰσραὴλ παύσεται γενέσθαι ἔθνοσ κατὰ πρόσωπόν μου πάσασ τὰσ ἡμέρασ. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 38:37)
  • ἄνευ δὲ ταύτησ οὔθ’ ὁ λόγοσ οὔθ’ οἱ νόμοι οὔθ’ ἡ τῶν πραγμάτων ἀλήθεια σῶσαι δύνανται τὸν ἀδίκωσ κρινόμενον. (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 6:4)
  • ἤκουσα δὲ αὐτοῦ ποτε καὶ πρὸσ τὸν τὸν τῶν νόμων ἔμπειρον ταῦτα λέγοντοσ, ὅτι κινδυνεύουσιν ἄχρηστοι εἶναι οἱ νόμοι, ἄν τε πονηροῖσ ἄν τε ἀγαθοῖσ γράφωνται· (Lucian, (no name) 59:1)
  • τὰ γὰρ τοιαῦτα βέβαια καὶ διὰ παντὸσ κύρια ὑπάρχειν οἱ νόμοι ἀξιοῦσιν. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 12:6)

Synonyms

  1. a song

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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