different between nomic vs gnomic

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (nomikós, “relating to laws”), from ????? (nómos, “law, custom”).

Adjective

nomic (not comparable)

1. (dated) customary; ordinary; applied to the usual spelling of a language, in distinction from strictly phonetic methods.
2. (sciences) Relating to a law

Anagrams

• Minco, Monic, comin, comin', monic

English

Etymology

From French gnomique, ultimately from Ancient Greek ???????? (gn?mikós), from ????? (gn?m?, “thought, judgement”), akin to ???????? (gign?sk?, “know”).

Adjective

gnomic (comparative more gnomic, superlative most gnomic)

1. Of, or relating to gnomes (sententious sayings).
   • G. R. Lewes

     a city long famous as the seat of elegiac and gnomic poetry

   • 2013, Adam Roberts, The Riddles of The Hobbit, Palgrave Macmillan (?ISBN), page 17:

     Old English culture was threaded through with riddles, cryptograms, gnomic verses, charms and riddling modes of speech such as litotes, just as Modern English culture is (if you will forgive me) riddled with jokes and catch-phrases, crosswords and quizzes, irony and sarcasm.

2. (of a saying or aphorism) Mysterious and often incomprehensible yet seemingly wise.

3. (grammar) Expressing general truths or aphorisms.

Related terms

• gnome

Translations

Further reading

• Gnomic aspect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• coming

Romanian

Etymology

From French gnomique

Adjective

gnomic m or n (feminine singular gnomic?, masculine plural gnomici, feminine and neuter plural gnomice)

1. gnomic

Declension