nomear

• anomear, numear

From Old Galician-Portuguese nomẽar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin nōmināre, present active infinitive of nōminō (“I name”), from nōmen (“name”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”). Compare nominar, a borrowed doublet. Cognate with Portuguese nomear and Spanish nombrar.

• IPA^(key): [no.me.ˈaɾ]

nomear (first-person singular present nomeo, first-person singular preterite nomeei, past participle nomeado)
nomear (first-person singular present nomeio, first-person singular preterite nomeei, past participle nomeado, reintegrationist norm)

1. to name, to give a name
2. to entitle
3. to name, appoint, nominate
   • 1281, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Sada / A Coruña: Ediciós do Castro, page 76:

     Et depoys de uossa morte fique este casar sobredito a uosso fillo Lourenço et a una persona que uos nomeardes a uosso passamento

     And after your death, this said farmhouse will be left to your son Lourenzo and to a person that you'll appoint at the moment of your decease

4. to mention

• nomeado
• nomeamento

• nome

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “nomear”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “nomear”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “nomear”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “nomear”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From Old Galician-Portuguese nomẽar, nomear from Latin nōmināre (“to name”), from nōmen (“name”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”). Compare nominar, a borrowed doublet. By surface analysis, nome +‎ -ear.

• Hyphenation: no‧me‧ar

nomear (first-person singular present nomeio, first-person singular preterite nomeei, past participle nomeado)

1. to name (give a name to)

   Synonyms: chamar, denominar, designar, nominar

2. to nominate (name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position)

   Synonym: indicar

   Antonym: desnomear

3. to entitle (give a title to)

   Synonym: intitular

4. to elect (choose a candidate in an election)

   Synonyms: eleger, escolher

5. to name (publicly implicate)

• “nomear”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “nomear” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “nomear”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “nomear”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “nomear”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024