νόμ-ιμος (nomimos)

Where it lives

Minos 16 · 56.08/10k
Virtues and Vices 2 · 13.49/10k
Leviticus 25 · 13.36/10k
Letter 7 1 · 12.84/10k
Against Aristogeiton 2 2 · 11.9/10k
Hippias Major 9 · 10.66/10k
Constitution of the Lacedaemonians 5 · 10.28/10k
Against Aristocrates 14 · 9.16/10k
Michaeas 2 · 8.78/10k
Areopagiticus 4 · 8.75/10k
2 Timothy 1 · 8.34/10k
The Funeral Speech 51-61 2 · 7.97/10k

Densest 12 of 91 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

νόμ-ιμος · nom-imos — LSJ

conformable to custom, usage, law, legitimate, customary, prescriptive

conformable to custom, usage, or law, ν. ὅρκος Lex ap. And. 1.98; ν. ἔρωτες Gorg. Fr. 6 D.; ἔργα δίκαια καὶ ν. Democr. 174; legitimate, ν. παῖδες E. Ph. 815 (lyr.): hence, customary, prescriptive, φῶς ib. 345 (lyr.), etc.; οἱ ν. θεοί Pl. Lg. 954a; ἡ ἐπίδεσις ἡ ν. Hp. Art. 14; νόμιμόν [ἐστί] τινι ποιεῖν τι X. Cyr. 8.8.8; ν. τινὰ δεδέσθαι Id. Mem. 1.2.49.

2 observant of law

observant of law, Choeril. 3, Antipho 2.2.12, Archyt. ap. Stob. 4.5.61; ν. καὶ κόσμιοι Pl. Grg. 504d; ν. πόλις Isoc. l.c.

II usages, customs

νόμιμα, τά, usages, customs, ἄλλα ἄλλοισιν νόμιμα, σφετέραν δʼ αἰνεῖ δίκαν ἕκαστος Pi. Fr. 215, cf. A. Th. 334 (lyr.), Hdt. 2.79; ν. Δωρικά, Χαλκιδικά, Th. 6.4, 5; τὰ κοινὰ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ν. Id. 3.59; almost, = νόμοι, ἄγραπτα ν. S. Ant. 455; ν. θεῶν E. Supp. 19; τὰ εἰωθότα ν. Pl. Phdr. 265a; ἄγραφα ν. Id. Lg. 793a, D. 23.70; τὰ περὶ τοὺς θεοὺς ν., τὸ πρὸς τοὺς πολεμίους ν., X. Mem. 4.6.4, Cyr. 1.6.34; ν. βαρβαρικά, title of treatise by Aristotle: rare in sg., τὸ πάντων ν. Emp. 135.1.

2 legal rights, process of law, illegally

legal rights, ν. καὶ φιλάνθρωπα BGU 1074.2 (i A.D.); process of law, τοῖς ν. χρῆσθαι Mitteis Chr. 88 i 12 (ii A.D.); ἄνευ νομίμων ἀπωθεῖσθαι to be illegally ejected, PFay. 124.18 (ii A.D.); εἴργεσθαι τῶν ν., i.e. ἱερῶν καὶ ἀγορᾶς, of persons accused of murder, Antipho 6.34, Arist. Ath. 57.2.

3 funeral rites

funeral rites (cf. νομίζω I.1), Din. 2.8; τιμᾶν τινας ἐσθήμασί τε καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ν. Th. 3.58.

III in a natural way, professional

Adv. -μως Antipho 5.14; κοσμίως καὶ ν. Pl. Smp. 182a; ν. ἀποθανεῖν in a natural way, Lys. Fr. 53.4; οἱ ν. ἀθλοῦντες, πεπαιδευμένοι, professional athletes, physicians, Gal. 6.488, 17(1).26, cf. 8.171: Comp. -ώτερον X. Mem. 3.5.20: Sup. -ώτατα D.C. 78.13.

In the wild

νομίμων · nomimōn Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 333–335
νόμιμον · nomimon Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 1061)
νόμιμα · nomima Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 1 (DIORISIS sentence 535)
νομίμων · nomimōn Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..57 (DIORISIS sentence 694)
νόμιμον · nomimon Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 166)
νόμιμοι · nomimoi Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 166)

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