Definitions for numen

numen nu·men

Spelling: [noo-min, nyoo-]
IPA: /ˈnu mɪn, ˈnyu-/

Numen is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in numen (emnnu).

Definitions for numen

noun

  1. divine power or spirit; a deity, especially one presiding locally or believed to inhabit a particular object.

Origin of numen

1620-30; Latin nūmen a nod, command, divine will or power, divinity; akin to nūtāre to nod the head in commanding or assent

Examples for numen

He looked at her, inquiring of her whole person what numen abode in the fane.

For the idea of a numen supremum did not exclude belief in the existence and manifestation of subordinate deities.

The populus was the tree of Hercules, and the plane-tree was the “numen of Atridæ.”

Nuere should therefore express a simple exercise of will-power, and numen is the being119 exercising it.

numen is so important a word in the Roman religion that it is necessary to be perfectly clear as to what was meant by it.

I do not say that he or any other numen was the better for the change.

Astra castra, numen lumen—The stars my camp, the deity my light.

It would seem that every region in Italy had such a numen loci (naturally mainly agricultural).

After two days of strenuous fighting the German posts of numen and Nola were taken, and some officers, guns, and ammunition.

The notion of the numen is always vague and indefinite: even its sex may be uncertain.

Word Value for numen
Scrable

7

Words with friends

11

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