See nomothete in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
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"word": "nomothetic"
}
],
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2018, Quinn Slobodian, quoting H. A. Hayek in translation, in Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, 206",
"text": "He proposed a bicameral legislature divided into elected legislators tasked with everyday business of state, who he called “telothetes,” and another set of legislators called “nomothetes” of ages forty to fifty-five elected by their peers to fifteen-year terms."
}
],
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"A lawgiver; a legislator."
],
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"lawgiver",
"lawgiver"
]
]
},
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"English terms with quotations"
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"ref": "1997, Umberto Eco, “Some Remarks on Perfect Languages”, in Semiotics around the world: synthesis in diversity:",
"text": "Clearly we are in the presence of a motif, common to other religions and mythologies — that of the Nomothete, the name-giver, the creator of language",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A name giver."
]
}
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"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "lawgiver, legislator",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nomothète"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "lawgiver, legislator",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nomoteta"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"sense": "lawgiver, legislator",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nomotheta"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"sense": "lawgiver, legislator",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nomothetēs"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "nomotét",
"sense": "lawgiver, legislator",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "номоте́т"
}
],
"word": "nomothete"
}
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