gnome

Etymology 1
From, from , used by as a synonym for.

Noun

 * 1)  An elemental (spirit or corporeal creature associated with a classical element) associated with earth.
 * 2)  One of a race of imaginary human-like beings, usually depicted as short and typically bearded males, who inhabit the inner parts of the earth and act as guardians of mines, mineral treasure, etc.; in modern fantasy literature and games, when distinguished from dwarves, gnomes are usually even smaller than dwarves and more focussed on engineering than mining.
 * 3) A person of small stature or misshapen features, or of strange appearance.
 * 4) The, , a small owl of the western United States.
 * 5) A small statue of a dwarf-like character, often bearded, placed in a garden.
 * 6)  An upper atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a compact blue starter.
 * 7)  A banker, especially a secretive international one.
 * 8) * 1985, Fodor's, Fodor's ... London, Fodor's
 * For this is a creation of the City, of the country&#39;s financial heart, and of the gnomes of London who have financed it and supported it entirely on their own.
 * 1) The, , a small owl of the western United States.
 * 2) A small statue of a dwarf-like character, often bearded, placed in a garden.
 * 3)  An upper atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a compact blue starter.
 * 4)  A banker, especially a secretive international one.
 * 5) * 1985, Fodor's, Fodor's ... London, Fodor's
 * For this is a creation of the City, of the country&#39;s financial heart, and of the gnomes of London who have financed it and supported it entirely on their own.
 * 1) * 1985, Fodor's, Fodor's ... London, Fodor's
 * For this is a creation of the City, of the country&#39;s financial heart, and of the gnomes of London who have financed it and supported it entirely on their own.
 * 1) * 1985, Fodor's, Fodor's ... London, Fodor's
 * For this is a creation of the City, of the country&#39;s financial heart, and of the gnomes of London who have financed it and supported it entirely on their own.

Translations

 * Albanian: Thopç,
 * Arabic: تِمْثَال, قزم خرافيّ, قَوْلٌ مَأْثُور, مَثَل سائر, اِتِّزان, حَصَافَة, حِكْمَة,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: gnom,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 地精
 * Czech: skřítek
 * Danish: gnom
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, , gnoomi
 * French:
 * Galician:, , perello, cachizo
 * German:
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ノーム
 * Lithuanian: nykštukas
 * Marathi: नोम
 * North Frisian: Önereersk
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: gnom
 * Nynorsk: gnom
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, pigmeo,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Walloon: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: gnoomi
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Polish: skarbek,


 * Albanian: Thopç,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:, , , perello, cachizo
 * Marathi: नोम
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:
 * German: Gnomen-Sperlingskauz
 * Navajo: biniiʼdootłʼizh
 * Polish: sóweczka dwuplamista

Etymology 2
From, from the base of.

Noun

 * 1)  A brief reflection or maxim; a pithy saying.
 * 2) * 1996, Giambattista Vico, Giorgio A. Pinton, Arthur W. Shippee (translators), The Art of Rhetoric, [1711-1741, Giambattista Vico, Institutiones Oratoriae], page 125,
 * The Greeks in their tongue call this second type of maxim noema. The gnome is more appropriate to the philosophers, and the noema to the orators, to the poets, and to the historians. To speak by gnomes alone was referred to by the Greeks as "philosophizing" which we Italians would render as "to mouth maxims" (sputar sentenze).
 * The Greeks in their tongue call this second type of maxim noema. The gnome is more appropriate to the philosophers, and the noema to the orators, to the poets, and to the historians. To speak by gnomes alone was referred to by the Greeks as "philosophizing" which we Italians would render as "to mouth maxims" (sputar sentenze).

Etymology
From New Latin, not attested classically. .