νόημα

Ancient Greek

From νοέω (noéō, “to intend, to perceive, to see, to understand”) +‎ -μᾰ (-ma).

νόημᾰ • (nóēma) n (genitive νοήμᾰτος); third declension

perception
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 7.36
- «τῶν νέες ὠκεῖαι ὡς εἰ πτερὸν ἠὲ νόημᾰ»
- ‘tō̂n nées ōkeîai hōs ei pteròn ēè nóēmă.’
- ‘and the ships of those [men] as swift as [a bird’s] wing or a thought’.
thought, purpose, design
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 13.330
- «τὸν δ’ ἠείβετ’ ἔπειτᾰ θεᾱ̀ γλαυκῶπῐς Ἀ̆θήνη: ‹αἰεί τοι τοιοῦτον ἐνῐ στήθεσσῐ νόημᾰ:»
- ‘tòn d’ ēeíbet épeită t͡heā̀ glaukō̂pĭs Ăt͡hḗnē: “aieí toi toioûton enĭ stēt͡hessĭ nóēmă:’
- ‘and-but thereupon the bright-eyed Athena answered him: “ever is a thought such as this in the breasts:’
understanding, mind
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 20.346
- «ὣς φᾰτο Τηλέμᾰχος : μνησῆσῐ δὲ Πᾰλλᾰς Ἀ̆θήνη ἄ̆σβεστον γέλω ὦρσε, πᾰρέπλᾰγξεν δὲ νόημᾰ.»
- ‘hṓs p͡hăto Tēlémăc͡hos: mnēsē̂sĭ dè Păllăs Ăt͡hḗnē ắsbeston gélō ō̂rse păréplăɡxen dè nóēmă.’
- ‘And-but Telemachos was saying [in his own interest]: “And-but amongst the wooers, Pallas Athena excited unquenchable laughter and turning the thought from the sane path.’

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ νόημᾰ tò nóēma	τὼ νοήμᾰτε tṑ noḗmate	τᾰ̀ νοήμᾰτᾰ tà noḗmata
Genitive	τοῦ νοήμᾰτος toû noḗmatos	τοῖν νοημᾰ́τοιν toîn noēmátoin	τῶν νοημᾰ́των tôn noēmátōn
Dative	τῷ νοήμᾰτῐ tôi noḗmati	τοῖν νοημᾰ́τοιν toîn noēmátoin	τοῖς νοήμᾰσῐ / νοήμᾰσῐν toîs noḗmasi(n)
Accusative	τὸ νόημᾰ tò nóēma	τὼ νοήμᾰτε tṑ noḗmate	τᾰ̀ νοήμᾰτᾰ tà noḗmata
Vocative	νόημᾰ nóēma	νοήμᾰτε noḗmate	νοήμᾰτᾰ noḗmata
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“νόημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“νόημα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“νόημα”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
νόημα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
νόημα in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“νόημα”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
G3540 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- conceit idem, page 154.
- concept idem, page 155.
- conception idem, page 155.
- fancy idem, page 306.
- idea idem, page 413.
- notion idem, page 562.
- thought idem, page 868.

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek νόημα (nóēma, “thought, perception, understanding”), with semantic loan from German Noem, itself from the Ancient Greek term, and Wink (“sign, wave”).^[1]

νόημα • (nóima) n (plural νοήματα)

^ νόημα, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language