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

  • ἐπειδὴ ὁ δᾶμοσ ὁ Ἀθαναίων ἔν τε τοῖσ προγενομένοισ καιροῖσ εὐνοέων διατελεῖ Βυζαντίοισ καὶ τοῖσ συμμάχοισ καὶ συγγενέσι Περινθίοισ καὶ πολλὰσ καὶ μεγάλασ χρείασ παρέσχηται, ἔν τε τῷ παρεστακότι καιρῷ Φιλίππω τῶ Μακεδόνοσ ἐπιστρατεύσαντοσ ἐπὶ τὰν χώραν καὶ τὰν πόλιν ἐπ’ ἀναστάσει Βυζαντίων καὶ Περινθίων καὶ τὰν χώραν δαίοντοσ καὶ δενδροκοπέοντοσ, βοαθήσασ πλοίοισ ἑκατὸν καὶ εἴκοσι καὶ σίτῳ καὶ βέλεσι καὶ ὁπλίταισ ἐξείλετο ἁμὲ ἐκ τῶν μεγάλων κινδύνων καὶ ἀποκατέστασε τὰν πάτριον πολιτείαν καὶ τὼσ νόμωσ καὶ τὼσ τάφωσ, δεδόχθαι τῷ δάμῳ τῷ Βυζαντίων καὶ Περινθίων Ἀθαναίοισ δόμεν ἐπιγαμίαν, πολιτείαν, ἔγκτασιν γᾶσ καὶ οἰκιᾶν, προεδρίαν ἐν τοῖσ ἀγῶσι, πόθοδον ποτὶ τὰν βωλὰν καὶ τὸν δᾶμον πράτοισ πεδὰ τὰ ἱερά, καὶ τοῖσ κατοικεῖν ἐθέλουσι τὰν πόλιν ἀλειτουργήτοισ ἦμεν πασᾶν τᾶν λειτουργιᾶν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 127:1)

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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