numen

From Latin nūmen.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnjuː.mən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈnuː.mən/

numen (plural numina)

1. A divinity, especially a local or presiding god.
   • 1671, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe, Chapter 4:

     The Egyptians were doubtless the most singular of all the Pagans, and the most oddly discrepant from the rest in their manner of worship; yet nevertheless, that these also agreed with the rest in those fundamentals of worshipping one supreme and universal Numen […]

   • 1965, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49:

     Where were Secretaries James and Foster and Senator Joseph, those dear daft numina who’d mothered over Oedipa’s so temperate youth?

   • 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:

     It was the solid and immovable tabernacle of the living numen whose son he had known, though but briefly and not intimately, in the flesh, and whose message he accepted with all his heart.

• numinous
• numinal

• noumen

• Could be simply an action noun of *nuō, for *nuimen, from *nuō + -men, thus meaning "a nodding with the head", "a nod", "command", "will" (as nūtus), with the particular meaning of "the divine will", "the will or power of the gods", "divine sway".
• Others suggest the Ancient Greek word νοούμενον (nooúmenon) ("an influence perceptible by mind but not by senses"), from νοέω (noéō), was borrowed into Early Latin as the word noumen, whose spelling changed to numen in Classical Latin.[1][2]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnuː.men/, [ˈnuː.mɛn]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnu.men/, [ˈnuː.men]

nūmen n (genitive nūminis); third declension

1. a nod of the head
2. divine sway or will
3. divine power or right
4. divinity

Third declension neuter.

• English: numen
• Italian: nume
• Portuguese: nume, númen
• Spanish: numen

• numen in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• numen in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• numen in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the sovereign power of the gods: numen (deorum) divinum
    

• IPA^(key): /ˈnumen/

numen

1. past participle of niman

From Latin numen.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnumen/, [ˈnumẽn]

numen m (plural númenes)

1. numen
2. muse (source of inspiration)

• (source of inspiration): inspiración, musa

• “numen” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.