νομίζω
Etym. νόμος
I. "to hold or own as a custom or usage, to use customarily, practise", Hdt.; ν. γλῶσσαν "to have" a language "in common use", id=Hdt.; ν. οὔτε ἀσπίδα οὔτε δόρυ id=Hdt.:—Pass. "to be the custom, be customary", Aesch.; σωφροσύνη νενόμιστο "was the fashion", Ar.; —impers., ὡς νομίζεται as "is the custom", Trag.:—part. νομιζόμενος, η, ον, "customary, usual", Thuc.; τὰ νομιζόμενα "customs, usages", Lat. instituta, Hdt., attic; τὰ νομισθέντα Eur.
2. "to adopt a custom or usage", Ἕλληνες ἀπ᾽ Αἰγυπτίων ταῦτα νενομίκασι Hdt.
3. c. dat. "to be used to" a thing, νομίζουσιν Αἰγύπτιοι οὐδ᾽ ἥρωσιν οὐδέν, i. e. "do" not "worship" heroes, id=Hdt.: hence "to make common use of, use", φωνῆι id=Hdt.; ἀγῶσι καὶ θυσίαις Thuc.
4. c. inf. "to have a custom" of doing, "to be accustomed" to do, Hdt.:—Pass. impers., γυμνοὺς εἰσιέναι νομίζεται it "is customary" for them.., Ar.; νενόμισται καλέεσθαι "it has been usual" to be called, Hdt.
5. Pass. "to be ordered" and "governed after old laws and customs", id=Hdt.
II. "to own, acknowledge, consider as", τοὺς κακοὺς χρηστοὺς ν. Soph.; νομίσαι χρὴ ταῦτα μυστήρια Ar.:— θεὸν ν. τινά "to hold or believe in" one as a god, Plat., Xen.:—hence, νομίζειν τούτους [θεούς] "to believe in" these [as gods], Hdt.; οὓς ἡ πόλις νομίζει θεοὺς οὐ νομίζων not "believing in" the gods in which the State "believes", Xen., Plat.: —but, νομίζειν θεοὺς εἶναι "to believe" that there are gods, Plat.; θεοὺς ν. οὐδαμοῦ Aesch.;—so that ν. τοὺς θεούς and ν. θεούς differ, the one being "to believe in certain gods", the other "to believe in gods generally", cf. ἡγέομαι III. 2:—Pass., Ἕλληνες ἤρξαντο νομισθῆναι "to be considered" as.., Hdt.
2. "to esteem or hold in honour", Pind.:—Pass. "to be in esteem", Plat.
3. c. acc. rei, "to deem, hold, believe", τι περί τινος id=Plat.
4. c. acc. et inf. "to deem, hold, believe that", Soph., Xen.;—also, like δοκέω, c. inf. fut. "to expect" that.., Soph.
5. Pass., with gen. of the person in possession, τοῦ θεῶν νομίζεται; whose sanctuary "is it held to be"? id=Soph.
6. absol., νομίζοντα λέγειν to speak "with full belief", Plat.