-nomy

English

Alternative forms

• -onomy

Etymology

From Ancient Greek νόμος (nómos, “law, custom”).

Suffix

-nomy

1. a system of rules, laws, or knowledge about a body of a particular field; distribution, arrangement, management

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -nomy

• Deuteronomy
• geonomy
• taxonomy

Related terms

• -nomic
• -nomics

Translations

system of rules, laws, or knowledge about a particular field

• Afrikaans: -nomie
• Albanian: -nomi f
• Asturian: -nomía f
• Basque: -nomia
• Belarusian: -но́мія f (-nómija)
• Bulgarian: -но́мия f (-nómija)
• Catalan: -nomia (ca) f
• Czech: -nomie f
• Danish: -nomi n
• Dutch: -nomie (nl) f
• Estonian: -noomia
• Finnish: -nomia
• French: -nomie (fr) f
• Galician: -nomía f
• German: -nomie (de) f
• Greek: -νομία (el) f (-nomía)
• Hebrew: ־נוֹמְיָה f (-nomia)
• Hungarian: -nómia, -ászat, -észet, -tan (hu), -tudomány (hu)
• Indonesian: -nomi
• Italian: -nomia f
• Kyrgyz: -номия (-nomiya)
• Latvian: -nomija f
• Lithuanian: -nomija f
• Macedonian: -номија f (-nomija)
• Maltese: -nomija f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: -nomi m

  Nynorsk: -nomi m

• Occitan: -nomia f
• Polish: -nomia f
• Portuguese: -nomia, -nomia f
• Romanian: -nomie f
• Russian: -но́мия (ru) f (-nómija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: -но̀мија f

  Roman: -nòmija f

• Sicilian: -numìa f
• Slovak: -nómia f
• Slovene: -nomija f
• Spanish: -nomía (es) f
• Swedish: -nomi (sv) c
• Tagalog: -nomiya
• Tajik: -номия (-nomiya)
• Turkish: -nomi (tr)
• Ukrainian: -но́мія f (-nómija)
• Uzbek: -nomiya
• Yiddish: ־נאָמיע f (-nomye)

See also

• -logy

Anagrams

• -mony, -onym, mony, myon