"νόημα" meaning in Ancient Greek

See νόημα in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /nó.ɛː.ma/, /ˈno.i.ma/, /ˈno.i.ma/, /nó.ɛː.ma/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /ˈno.e̝.ma/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ˈno.i.ma/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /ˈno.i.ma/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /ˈno.i.ma/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: From νοέω (noéō, “to intend, to perceive, to see, to understand”) + -μᾰ (-mă). Etymology templates: {{af|grc|νοέω|-μᾰ|t1=to intend, to perceive, to see, to understand}} νοέω (noéō, “to intend, to perceive, to see, to understand”) + -μᾰ (-mă) Head templates: {{grc-noun|νοήμᾰτος|n|third|head=νόημᾰ}} νόημᾰ • (nóēmă) n (genitive νοήμᾰτος); third declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|νόημᾰ|νοήμᾰτος}} Forms: νόημᾰ [canonical], nóēmă [romanization], νοήμᾰτος [genitive], Attic declension-3 [table-tags], τὸ νόημᾰ [nominative, singular], νοήμᾰτε [dual, nominative], τᾰ̀ νοήμᾰτᾰ [nominative, plural], τοῦ νοήμᾰτος [genitive, singular], νοημᾰ́τοιν [dual, genitive], νοημᾰ́των [genitive, plural], τῷ νοήμᾰτῐ [dative, singular], νοημᾰ́τοιν [dative, dual], τοῖς νοήμᾰσῐ [dative, plural], νοήμᾰσῐν [dative, plural], toîs noḗmăsĭ [dative, plural], toîs noḗmăsĭn [dative, plural], τὸ νόημᾰ [accusative, singular], νοήμᾰτε [accusative, dual], τᾰ̀ νοήμᾰτᾰ [accusative, plural], νόημᾰ [singular, vocative], νοήμᾰτε [dual, vocative], νοήμᾰτᾰ [plural, vocative], νῶμᾰ [alternative, Ionic]
  1. perception
    Sense id: en-νόημα-grc-noun-kye0a1kK
  2. thought, purpose, design
    Sense id: en-νόημα-grc-noun-dQ1-KAhF
  3. understanding, mind
    Sense id: en-νόημα-grc-noun-TT1MltVe Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension, Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -μα Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 20 30 50 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension: 19 29 52 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -μα: 20 30 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: νοήμων (noḗmōn), νοητός (noētós)

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "νοέω",
        "3": "-μᾰ",
        "t1": "to intend, to perceive, to see, to understand"
      },
      "expansion": "νοέω (noéō, “to intend, to perceive, to see, to understand”) + -μᾰ (-mă)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From νοέω (noéō, “to intend, to perceive, to see, to understand”) + -μᾰ (-mă).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "νόημᾰ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nóēmă",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "νοήμᾰτος",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-3",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Third declension",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὸ νόημᾰ",
      "roman": "tò nóēmă",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "νοήμᾰτε",
      "roman": "noḗmăte",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τᾰ̀ νοήμᾰτᾰ",
      "roman": "tằ noḗmătă",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῦ νοήμᾰτος",
      "roman": "toû noḗmătos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "νοημᾰ́τοιν",
      "roman": "noēmắtoin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "νοημᾰ́των",
      "roman": "noēmắtōn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῷ νοήμᾰτῐ",
      "roman": "tôi noḗmătĭ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "νοημᾰ́τοιν",
      "roman": "noēmắtoin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖς νοήμᾰσῐ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "νοήμᾰσῐν",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs noḗmăsĭ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs noḗmăsĭn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὸ νόημᾰ",
      "roman": "tò nóēmă",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "νοήμᾰτε",
      "roman": "noḗmăte",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τᾰ̀ νοήμᾰτᾰ",
      "roman": "tằ noḗmătă",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "νόημᾰ",
      "roman": "nóēmă",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "νοήμᾰτε",
      "roman": "noḗmăte",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "νοήμᾰτᾰ",
      "roman": "noḗmătă",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "νῶμᾰ",
      "roman": "nômă",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Ionic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "νοήμᾰτος",
        "2": "n",
        "3": "third",
        "head": "νόημᾰ"
      },
      "expansion": "νόημᾰ • (nóēmă) n (genitive νοήμᾰτος); third declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "νόημᾰ",
        "2": "νοήμᾰτος"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "noḗmōn",
      "word": "νοήμων"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "noētós",
      "word": "νοητός"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "and the ships of those [men] as swift as [a bird's] wing or as a thought",
          "ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 7.36",
          "roman": "tôn nées ōkeîai hōs ei pteròn ēè nóēmă",
          "text": "τῶν νέες ὠκεῖαι ὡς εἰ πτερὸν ἠὲ νόημᾰ"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "perception"
      ],
      "id": "en-νόημα-grc-noun-kye0a1kK",
      "links": [
        [
          "perception",
          "perception"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
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        {
          "english": "ever is a thought such as this in the breasts",
          "ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.330",
          "roman": "aieí toi toioûton enĭ stḗthessĭ nóēmă",
          "text": "αἰεί τοι τοιοῦτον ἐνῐ στήθεσσῐ νόημᾰ"
        }
      ],
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        "thought, purpose, design"
      ],
      "id": "en-νόημα-grc-noun-dQ1-KAhF",
      "links": [
        [
          "thought",
          "thought"
        ],
        [
          "purpose",
          "purpose"
        ],
        [
          "design",
          "design"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "20 30 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "19 29 52",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek neuter nouns in the third declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "20 30 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Ancient Greek terms suffixed with -μα",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "english": "Thus spoke Telemachus, but among the suitors Pallas Athene aroused unquenchable laughter, and turned their wits awry.",
          "ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 20.345–346",
          "roman": "hṑs phắto Tēlémăkhos; mnēstêrsĭ dè Păllằs Ăthḗnē // ắsbeston gélō ôrse, păréplănxen dè nóēmă.",
          "text": "ὣς φᾰ́το Τηλέμᾰχος· μνηστῆρσῐ δὲ Πᾰλλᾰ̀ς Ᾰ̓θήνη // ᾰ̓́σβεστον γέλω ὦρσε, πᾰρέπλᾰγξεν δὲ νόημᾰ."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "understanding, mind"
      ],
      "id": "en-νόημα-grc-noun-TT1MltVe",
      "links": [
        [
          "understanding",
          "understanding"
        ],
        [
          "mind",
          "mind"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/nó.ɛː.ma/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈno.i.ma/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈno.i.ma/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/nó.ɛː.ma/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈno.e̝.ma/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈno.i.ma/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈno.i.ma/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈno.i.ma/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "νόημα"
}
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    "Ancient Greek lemmas",
    "Ancient Greek neuter nouns",
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    "Ancient Greek nouns",
    "Ancient Greek proparoxytone terms",
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    "Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Ancient Greek third-declension nouns",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
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      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From νοέω (noéō, “to intend, to perceive, to see, to understand”) + -μᾰ (-mă).",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "νόημᾰ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "nóēmă",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "νοήμᾰτος",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-3",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Third declension",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὸ νόημᾰ",
      "roman": "tò nóēmă",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "νοήμᾰτε",
      "roman": "noḗmăte",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τᾰ̀ νοήμᾰτᾰ",
      "roman": "tằ noḗmătă",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῦ νοήμᾰτος",
      "roman": "toû noḗmătos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "νοημᾰ́τοιν",
      "roman": "noēmắtoin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "νοημᾰ́των",
      "roman": "noēmắtōn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῷ νοήμᾰτῐ",
      "roman": "tôi noḗmătĭ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "νοημᾰ́τοιν",
      "roman": "noēmắtoin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖς νοήμᾰσῐ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "νοήμᾰσῐν",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs noḗmăsĭ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs noḗmăsĭn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὸ νόημᾰ",
      "roman": "tò nóēmă",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "νοήμᾰτε",
      "roman": "noḗmăte",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τᾰ̀ νοήμᾰτᾰ",
      "roman": "tằ noḗmătă",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "νόημᾰ",
      "roman": "nóēmă",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "νοήμᾰτε",
      "roman": "noḗmăte",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "νοήμᾰτᾰ",
      "roman": "noḗmătă",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "νῶμᾰ",
      "roman": "nômă",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "Ionic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "νοήμᾰτος",
        "2": "n",
        "3": "third",
        "head": "νόημᾰ"
      },
      "expansion": "νόημᾰ • (nóēmă) n (genitive νοήμᾰτος); third declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "νόημᾰ",
        "2": "νοήμᾰτος"
      },
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "roman": "noḗmōn",
      "word": "νοήμων"
    },
    {
      "roman": "noētós",
      "word": "νοητός"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "and the ships of those [men] as swift as [a bird's] wing or as a thought",
          "ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 7.36",
          "roman": "tôn nées ōkeîai hōs ei pteròn ēè nóēmă",
          "text": "τῶν νέες ὠκεῖαι ὡς εἰ πτερὸν ἠὲ νόημᾰ"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "perception"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "perception",
          "perception"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "ever is a thought such as this in the breasts",
          "ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.330",
          "roman": "aieí toi toioûton enĭ stḗthessĭ nóēmă",
          "text": "αἰεί τοι τοιοῦτον ἐνῐ στήθεσσῐ νόημᾰ"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "thought, purpose, design"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "thought",
          "thought"
        ],
        [
          "purpose",
          "purpose"
        ],
        [
          "design",
          "design"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Ancient Greek terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Thus spoke Telemachus, but among the suitors Pallas Athene aroused unquenchable laughter, and turned their wits awry.",
          "ref": "800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 20.345–346",
          "roman": "hṑs phắto Tēlémăkhos; mnēstêrsĭ dè Păllằs Ăthḗnē // ắsbeston gélō ôrse, păréplănxen dè nóēmă.",
          "text": "ὣς φᾰ́το Τηλέμᾰχος· μνηστῆρσῐ δὲ Πᾰλλᾰ̀ς Ᾰ̓θήνη // ᾰ̓́σβεστον γέλω ὦρσε, πᾰρέπλᾰγξεν δὲ νόημᾰ."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "understanding, mind"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "understanding",
          "understanding"
        ],
        [
          "mind",
          "mind"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/nó.ɛː.ma/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈno.i.ma/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈno.i.ma/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/nó.ɛː.ma/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈno.e̝.ma/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈno.i.ma/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈno.i.ma/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈno.i.ma/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "νόημα"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Ancient Greek dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (074e7de and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.