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nomothete

nomothete noun: a lawgiver; a legislator.

Noun

nomothete (plural nomothetes)

  1. A lawgiver; a legislator.
    • 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.2018, Quinn Slobodian, quoting H. A. Hayek in translation, in Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, 206
  2. A name giver.
    • 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 language1997, Umberto Eco, “Some Remarks on Perfect Languages”, in Semiotics around the world: synthesis in diversity

Forms of nomothete

pluralnomothetes

Origin of nomothete

Borrowed from Ancient Greek νομοθέτης (nomothétēs, “law-giver”).

Questions about nomothete

What does nomothete mean?
Nomothete means a lawgiver; a legislator.
What part of speech is nomothete?
Nomothete is a noun.
What is the plural of nomothete?
The plural of nomothete is nomothetes.

Words near nomothete in the dictionary

  1. nomos
  2. nomotheism
  3. nomotheist
  4. nomotheistic
  5. nomotheists
  6. nomothete
  7. nomothetes
  8. nomothetic
  9. nomothetical
  10. nomothetically
  11. nomothetics

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