different between fomes vs nomes

English

Etymology

From medical Latin f?mes (“fomite”), a figurative extension of its original sense of kindling, tinder, &c. Gradually supplanted in use by fomite, a mistaken backformation of its plural form fomites, from Latin f?mit?s.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?f??mi?z/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?fo?.mi?z/

Noun

fomes (plural fomites)

1. (obsolete, medicine) The morbid matter created by a disease.
   • 1773, Gentleman's Magazine, No. 43, p. 554:

     If this putrid ferment could be more immediately corrected, a stop would probably be put to the flux, and the fomes of the disease likewise removed.

2. (archaic, medicine) Synonym of fomite: a substance able to communicate infection between people.
   • 1803, Medical & Physical Journal, No. 10, p. 213:

     I cannot say that I have known it spread from fomites.

3. (archaic, figuratively) Anything which similarly facilitates the spread of something similarly deleterious.
   • 1658, John Owen, Of Temptation, p. 126:

     Naturall tempers... prove a great Fomes of sinne.

References

• fomes in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “fomes, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1897

Anagrams

• MEFOs

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *d?eg??-. Related to Latin fove? (“I keep warm”), compare Latin f?mentum (“compress, poultice; kindling; mitigation”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fo?.mes/, [?fo?m?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fo.mes/, [?f??m?s]

Noun

f?mes f (genitive f?mitis); third declension

1. tinder, kindling
2. (New Latin, medicine) fomite

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• fomes in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fomes in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fomes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Middle English

Noun

fomes

1. plural of fome

Portuguese

Noun

fomes

1. plural of fome

Spanish

Adjective

fomes

1. plural of fome

English

Noun

nomes

1. plural of nome

Anagrams

• 'mones, Mones, Semon, meson, mones, omens, semon, somen

Asturian

Noun

nomes

1. plural of nome

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?no.m??/

Noun

nomes

1. plural of nome