Nomen
German, noun[ˈnoːmən]
Nomen is spelled N-O-M-E-N (5 letters) and appears 2.1 times per million words in written German, the 23,059th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nomen is a German neuter noun meaning “any declinable part of speech, i.e. substantive, adjective, numeral, article, pronoun” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Oberbegriff aller deklinierbaren Wortarten”.
What does Nomen mean in English?
noun
- 1
neuterany declinable part of speech, i.e. substantive, adjective, numeral, article, pronoun
- 2
neutersubstantive or adjective; a noun (broad sense)
- 3
neutersubstantive; noun (narrow sense)
- 4
neutername
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Oberbegriff aller deklinierbaren Wortarten 2. Oberbegriff für Substantiv und Adjektiv 3. Synonym zu Substantiv (Hauptwort)
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Nomen
- Nomens genitive
- Nomina plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Nomen?
- [ˈnoːmən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Nomen in German?
Nomen appears 2.1 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).