gnomique
French, adjective/ɡnɔ.mik/
gnomique is spelled G-N-O-M-I-Q-U-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 49 million words in written French, the 221,532nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Gnomique is a French adjective meaning “gnomic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui contient des sentences”.
What does gnomique mean in English?
adjective
- 1
gnomic
- 2
gnomic (expressing general truths or aphorisms)
le présent gnomique, le présent de vérité générale
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui contient des sentences. 2. Qui compose des poèmes en forme de sentences. 3. Qui tient du gnomisme, qui énonce des vérités présentées comme générales, valables à toutes les époques et à caractère universel. 4. Se dit d’un temps verbal ou d’un mode qui sert à exprimer une idée générale.
noun: 1. Ces poèmes eux-mêmes.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of gnomique
- gnomiques plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce gnomique?
- /ɡnɔ.mik/
- \ɡnɔ.mik\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to gnomique
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is gnomique in French?
gnomique appears about once in every 49 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).