nomer

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Perhaps a back-formation from misnomer.

Noun[edit]

nomer (plural nomers)

  1. (rare) A denomination.
    • 1979, Margaret E. Crahan, Franklin W. Knight, editors, Africa and the Caribbean, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 36:
      Apparently, it was in the United States that the term “African” was first publicly used as nomer for the black population as a whole, without reference to any specific functional stratum, by members of that group itself.
    • 1991, William Strauss, Neil Howe, Generations, Quill, →ISBN, page 324:
      Yet the worst aspect of this “bust” nomer, and why 13ers resent it, is how it plants today's 25-year-olds squarely where they don't want to be: in the shadow of the “boom[.]”

Indonesian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈnomər]
  • Hyphenation: no‧mêr

Noun[edit]

nomer (first-person possessive nomerku, second-person possessive nomermu, third-person possessive nomernya)

  1. Superseded spelling of nomor.
  2. Alternative spelling of nomor.

Old French[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin nōmināre, present active infinitive of nōminō.

Verb[edit]

nomer

  1. to name (give a name to)
  2. to name (cite, make reference to)
  3. (reflexive, se nomer) to be called (have a certain name)

Conjugation[edit]

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ms, *-mt are modified to ns, nt. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants[edit]

  • Middle French: nommer
  • Norman: nommer