noun
English
/naʊn/, /næːn/
noun
Definitions
- (grammar) A word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
- (grammar) Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English noun derived from noun derived from Latin nōmen (name, noun).
Origin
Latin
nōmen
Gloss
name, noun
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
名
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- anomia English
- mispronoun English
- neopronoun English
- nomen gentilicium English
- nounal English
- nounally English
- nounhood English
- nounification English
- nouniness English
- nounize English
- nounless English
- nounlessness English
- nounlike English
- nounness English
- nounship English
- nouny English
- postnoun English
- prenoun English
- pronoun English
- pronounal English
- *nōmine Latin
- *nōmine(m) Latin
- cognomen Latin
- ignominia Latin
- nominalis Latin
- nominatim Latin
- nōmen Latin
- praenomen Latin
- -nomio Italian
- nome Italian
- pronom French
- antenombre Spanish, Castilian
- nombre Spanish, Castilian
- nómina Spanish, Castilian
- sobrenombre Spanish, Castilian
- ὄνομα Ancient Greek
- *h₁nómn̥ Proto-Indo-European
- noun Middle English
- surnoun Middle English
- navneord Danish
- nom Old French
- pronomo Esperanto
- anomenar Catalan, Valencian
- nume Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- numi Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- nomen nudum Translingual
- nomen oblitum Translingual
- pronom Middle French
- nome Old Portuguese
- numã Aromanian
- *nomən Proto-Italic
- num Romansh
- nome Asturian
- non Friulian
- nom Old Occitan
- nomne Old Spanish
- nomu Sicilian
- nòmber Papiamentu
- noun xno
- nómme Ligurian
- naum Dalmatian
- naun Dalmatian
- inom Ladin
- nùmene Sardinian
- nom Istriot
- non Istriot
- numbre Tetelcingo Nahuatl
- nome Mirandese
- nome Istro-Romanian