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νόμον (nomon)

νόμον is an Ancient Greek form of νόμος, meaning “custom, law; pasture”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 1,711 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.24.2: ταύτην ἀπῴκισαν μὲν Κερκυραῖοι, οἰκιστὴς δ’ ἐγένετο Φαλίος Ἐρατοκλείδου Κορίνθιος γένος τῶν ἀφ’ Ἡρακλέους, κατὰ δὴ τὸν παλαιὸν νόμον ἐκ τῆς μητροπόλεως κατακληθείς. ξυνῴκισαν δὲ καὶ Κορινθίων τινὲς καὶ τοῦ ἄλλου Δωρικοῦ γένους.

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 27.33: πᾶσαν τὰν ἀγέλαν, πάντʼ ἄλσεα καὶ νομὸν ἕξεις.

Aristophanes, Birds 1287: ἐπέτονθʼ ἕωθεν ὥσπερ ἡμεῖς ἐπὶ νομόν·

All forms of νόμος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.