Nome in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Nome

You can make 20 words from 'nome' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 4 letters words from 'nome'
• 3 letters words from 'nome'
• 2 letters words from 'nome'

4 letters words from 'nome'

MENO 6	NOME 6
OMEN 6

3 letters words from 'nome'

EMO 5	EON 3
MEN 5	MOE 5
MON 5	NOM 5
ONE 3

2 letters words from 'nome'

EM 4	EN 2
ME 4	MO 4
NE 2	NO 2
OE 2	OM 4
ON 2

Definitions and meaning of nome

nome

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /nəʊm/
• (General American) enPR: nōm, IPA^(key): /noʊm/
• Homophones: Nome, gnome

Etymology 1

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

Noun

nome (plural 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.

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)

1. A type of musical composition in Ancient Greece.

Translations

Etymology 3

Contraction.

Interjection

nome

1. (US, regional) Alternative form of no'm (“no ma'am”)
   • 1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, Folio Society 2016, p. 7:

     Mother said, “Is he cold, Versh.”

     “Nome.” Versh said.

Etymology 4

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

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

References

Further reading

• Nome (melody) in the 1905 edition of the New International Encyclopedia.
• Nome (Egypt) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Emon, Mone, NEMO, meno-, meon, mone, nemo, omen

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Asturian

Alternative forms

• ñome

Etymology

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

Noun

nome m (plural nomes)

1. name
2. noun

Synonyms

• (noun): sustantivu

Derived terms

• nome común
• nome propiu

Related terms

• nomar
• nombrar

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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.

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

Adverb

nome

1. namely

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Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈno.mɪ]

Noun

nome m (plural nomes)

1. name
2. (grammar) a noun, a substantive or adjective
3. (figuratively) fame, renown

Synonyms

• (noun): nome común, nome propio

Derived terms

• a nome de
• en nome de

Related terms

• nomeado
• nomear

References

• “nome” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “nome” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “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.

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Istro-Romanian

Etymology

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

Noun

nome (definite nomelu)

1. name

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Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈno.me/
• Hyphenation: nó‧me

Noun

nome m (plural nomi)

1. name
2. first name

   Synonym: nome di battesimo

3. name, reputation

   Synonyms: reputazione, fama

4. (grammar) noun

Hyponyms

• (noun): nome aggettivo = aggettivo, nome sostantivo = sostantivo

Related terms

See also

• (parts of speech) parte del discorso; aggettivo, articolo, avverbio, congiunzione, interiezione/interjezione, nome, nome aggettivo, nome sostantivo, numero, particella, preposizione, pronome, sostantivo, verbo ^{(Category: it:Parts of speech)}

Anagrams

• meno, Meno, menò

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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

• AEDLL

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Middle English

Etymology

From Old English noma, variant of nama.

Noun

nome (plural nomes)

1. Alternative form of name

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Mirandese

Etymology

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

Noun

nome m (plural nomes)

1. name

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• noment

Adjective

nome

1. neuter of nomen

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnome/

Noun

nome m

1. name

   • […] Loado ſeia ſeu Nome.

     […] may his Name be praised.

Descendants

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈno.mɨ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈno.mi/, [ˈn̪õ̞.mɪ]
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈno.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)

3. (grammar) noun

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:nome.

Synonyms

• (word indicating something): denominação
• (reputation): reputação
• (noun): substantivo

Derived terms

Related terms

Source: wiktionary.org

• (Greek) a province or department esp. in ancient Greece.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)