Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In zoology: A genus of zygænid moths.
- noun A genus of polyps.
- noun A genus of worms
- noun A genus of North American bees, of the family Andrenidæ, having the apical joint of the antennæ spoon-shaped. There are two species, E. apacha and E. heteropoda.
- noun In astronomy, the fifteenth planetoid, discovered at Naples by De Gasparis in 1851.
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Examples
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In thus tracing back to Aristotle the idea that peace is the chief social good, St. Thomas was misled by the fact that the Latin text of the Ethics translated the Greek eunomia good laws well obeyed by peace.
The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997
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Nomos here has connotations similar to those which eunomia has elsewhere in Greek literature, and it takes the place assigned to themis in one of its uses in the early archaic period.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARTIN OSTWALD 1968
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As to the shortest words with the five vowels used only once, another seven-letter example is eunomia, listed in the Oxford English Dictionary Supplement.
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Page 347, Volume 4 order (eunomia)” in our sense today (Guthrie, III, 71).
SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY SALOMON BOCHNER 1968
TankHughes commented on the word eunomia
Eunomia looks like it means 'well-named' which is a weird self-referential pat on the back by the scientist/discoverers. "We're so good at naming things, this one is called the well-named bug." No. Eunomia is also a Greek goddess, where -nomia means order, not names. You get a pass, genus eunomia.
May 5, 2015