English edit

Etymology edit

Perhaps a back-formation from misnomer.

Noun edit

nomer (plural nomers)

  1. (rare) A denomination.
    • 1979, Margaret E. Crahan, Franklin W. Knight, editors, Africa and the Caribbean, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 36:
      Apparently, it was in the United States that the term “African” was first publicly used as nomer for the black population as a whole, without reference to any specific functional stratum, by members of that group itself.
    • 1991, William Strauss, Neil Howe, Generations, Quill, →ISBN, page 324:
      Yet the worst aspect of this “bust” nomer, and why 13ers resent it, is how it plants today's 25-year-olds squarely where they don't want to be: in the shadow of the “boom[.]”

Indonesian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈnomər]
  • Hyphenation: no‧mêr

Noun edit

nomer (first-person possessive nomerku, second-person possessive nomermu, third-person possessive nomernya)

  1. Superseded spelling of nomor.
  2. Alternative spelling of nomor.

Old French edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Latin nōmināre, present active infinitive of nōminō.

Verb edit

nomer

  1. to name (give a name to)
  2. to name (cite, make reference to)
  3. (reflexive, se nomer) to be called (have a certain name)

Conjugation edit

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ms, *-mt are modified to ns, nt. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants edit

  • Middle French: nommer
  • Norman: nommer