Word.ws English Dictionary

-nomial

-nomial suffix: denotes an expression with a specified number of terms.

Suffix

-nomial

  1. Denotes an expression with a specified number of terms.

Origin of -nomial

Derived from Ancient Greek νομός (nomós, “portion, part”), compare binomial.

Questions about -nomial

What does -nomial mean?
-nomial means denotes an expression with a specified number of terms.
What part of speech is -nomial?
-nomial is a suffix.

Words near -nomial in the dictionary

  1. -nik
  2. -niki
  3. -nikim
  4. -niks
  5. -nom
  6. -nomial
  7. -nomicon
  8. -nomics
  9. -nomy
  10. -nym
  11. -nymy

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: -nomial (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame--nomial.wav.

Cite this entry: “-nomial.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/-nomial. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.