nome

nome · noun¹

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromνομός“district”
2. French · borrowed fromnome
3. English todaynome

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

nome · noun²

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromνόμος
2. English todaynome

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.

nome · interjection³

Contraction.

nome · noun⁴

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromνομός
2. French · borrowed from-nôme
3. English todaynome

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.

Words from the same roots