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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr. [GREEK];

νόμοσ

+ [GREEK] to assign: cf. F.

nomothète

A lawgiver.

[R.]

nomothete ‎(plural nomothetes)

A lawgiver; a legislator.
A name giver.
- 1997, Umberto Eco, “Some Remarks on Perfect Languages”, in Semiotics around the world: synthesis in diversity:
  Clearly we are in the presence of a motif, common to other religions and mythologies — that of the Nomothete, the name-giver, the creator of language