Word.ws English Dictionary

-nomicon

-nomicon suffix: used to form nouns, referring to a book of knowledge on the specified topic.

Suffix

-nomicon

  1. Used to form nouns, referring to a book of knowledge on the specified topic.

Origin of -nomicon

Most likely from the name of the fictional Necronomicon, or from Ancient Greek νομῐκόν (nomĭkón), the neuter form of νομικός (nomikós, “relating to laws”) (also used in the titles of various real works, like the Nomicon of Photius, or the 18th century Nomicon Procheiron of Michael Photinopoulos).

Questions about -nomicon

What does -nomicon mean?
-nomicon means used to form nouns, referring to a book of knowledge on the specified topic.
What part of speech is -nomicon?
-nomicon is a suffix.

Words near -nomicon in the dictionary

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

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: -nomicon (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:

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