Pronounced: PAH-murr, noun
Notes: You may be able to guess one of the meanings
Yesterday’s word
The word numen is “a spiritual force or influence often identified with a natural object, phenomenon, or place”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1600s
Background / Comments
Our word made an interesting journey; it came from the Latin word numen (nod of the head). Ancient Romans saw divine force and power working in the inanimate objects and nonhuman phenomena around them. The idea is that a god would nod to cause or to allow an event to happen. In time, the Latin word described the divine force of any object, place, or phenomenon.
Richard's Vocabulary Word-of-the-Day 