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S�lvia73
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Hi everyone!
I �m translating a text and I �ve come across the word "numenary". I can �t find it in any dictionary online and I �ve got no clue about its meaning. Can you help me?
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22 Feb 2009
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Vana
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Just use Wikipedia and you will find the answer there. Good luck!
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22 Feb 2009
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S�lvia73
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Thanks Vana. I did and found nothing! |
22 Feb 2009
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Vana
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This is only the beginning of what I have found so...
Numerary
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jose Ortega y Gasset. Numerary professor of Psychology, Logic and Ethics at the Escuela Superior del Magisterio de Madrid
Numerary is a civil designation for persons who are
incorporated in a fixed or permanent way to a society or group: regular
member of the working staff, permanent staff, or member, distinguished
from a supernumerary.
The term "numerary" and its counterpart, "supernumerary,"
originated in Spanish and Latin American academy and government; it is
now also used in countries all over the world, such as France, the
U.S., England, Italy, etc.
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22 Feb 2009
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Zora
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As far as I can tell "numenary" doesn �t exist but "numerary" does... Opus Dei has "numeraries and super numeraries"... here �s a wiki article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerary
A numerary is basically somebody who has gone into into the faith, has taken a "vote" of celebicay and has agreed to live by the Opus Dei rules...
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22 Feb 2009
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BRAHIM S
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Then, just use my favourite tool, onelookdictionary,
http://www.onelook.com/
an exceptional site that permits to enlarge the search to many other dictionaries...
I searched and it �s there in 9 dictionaries
BRAHIM
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22 Feb 2009
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Jayho
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Hi everyone
I think Silvia73 is asking about numenary and not numerary. It �s very easy for us to not see that n in the word which can change the whole meaning.
I think that Zora is right, the word �numenary � may not commonly exist but if you google it you will find some entries. The word numen is in my dictionary. It says "a deity, a divine power or spirit". There actually is a wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numen. it �s quite interesting.
My favourite etymology site also says:
numinous 
"divine, spiritual," 1647, from L. numen (gen. numinis) "divine will," properly "divine approval expressed by nodding the head," from nuere "to nod" (cf. Gk. neuein "to nod"). A numenary, if we break the word down into its root and suffix, is a person who practises numen maybe. A numeni? One article talks about a numenary professor.
Related words that I found: numina, numinous, numeni
If there was a typographical error maybe it should be numerary and not numenary???
Now, after my googling efforts, when I see or hear this word I �ll be thinking of the Da Vinci Code!
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