νό-ημα, ατος, τό,
Ionic dialect νῶμα [[ 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 110.10 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (but νόημα [[ 105.3)] Refs]: (νοέω):—that which is perceived, perception, thought, τῶν νέες ὠκεῖαι, ὡς εἰ πτερὸν ἠὲ νόημα [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.36 (compare ὀξύτερον νοήματος 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 59.148 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἅμα νοήματι 'in the twinkling of an eye', [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.11U.: hence ἡ ἅμα ν. περίοδος] Refs 4th c.BC+] lightning survey, [[[prev. work] p.32 U.,compare 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “de Morte - Papiri Ercolanesi” 37, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 35); ν. φρενός 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 704 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 thought, purpose, idea, design, τοιοῦτον ἐνὶ στήθεσσι νόημα [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.330; Ζεὺς.. ἐνὶ φρεσὶν ὧδε νόημα ποίησ᾽ 14.273; νοήματα.. ἐκτελέει 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.104, compare 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 77, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 6.29; σοφώτατα νοήματα [prev. author] “O.” 7.72; οὐκ οἶδ᾽ ὄττι θέω· δίχα μοι τὰ ν. 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 36; ἐκτὸς τῶν ἐωθότων ν. στῆσαί τινα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.80; τὸ μὲν ν. τῆς θεοῦ, τὸ δὲ κλέμμ᾽ ἐμόν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1203, compare “Nu.” 743. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__3 in Philos., thought, concept, opposed to sensation, sense-presentation, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 8.34, etc.; φύσει διῄρηται τά τε ν. καὶ τὰ αἰσθήματα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 87; σύνθεσίς τις νοημάτων [prev. author] “de An.” 430a28 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; discursive thinking, as the function of διάνοια, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Hermes Trismegistus cited in 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 2.8.31. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]