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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From νομός (nomós).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /no.más/ → /noˈmas/ → /noˈmas/
Noun
νομᾰ́ς • (nomás) m or f (genitive νομᾰ́δος); third declension
- roaming about for pasture, pastoral tribes
- (figuratively) prostitute
- Numidian
Declension
ὁ, ἡ νομᾰ́ς ho, hē nomás
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τὼ νομᾰ́δε tṑ nomáde
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οἱ, αἱ νομᾰ́δες hoi, hai nomádes
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τοῦ, τῆς νομᾰ́δος toû, tês nomádos
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τοῖν νομᾰ́δοιν toîn nomádoin
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τῶν νομᾰ́δων tôn nomádōn
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τῷ, τῇ νομᾰ́δῐ tôi, têi nomádi
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τοῖν νομᾰ́δοιν toîn nomádoin
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τοῖς, ταῖς νομᾰ́σῐ / νομᾰ́σῐν toîs, taîs nomási(n)
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τὸν, τὴν νομᾰ́δᾰ tòn, tḕn nomáda
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τὼ νομᾰ́δε tṑ nomáde
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τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς νομᾰ́δᾰς toùs, tā̀s nomádas
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νομᾰ́ς nomás
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νομᾰ́δε nomáde
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νομᾰ́δες nomádes
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Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “νομάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “νομάς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- νομάς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- νομάς in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- browsing idem, page 101.
- errant idem, page 281.
- grazing idem, page 371.
- migratory idem, page 528.
- nomad idem, page 559.
- pastoral idem, page 598.
- pasturing idem, page 598.
- roving idem, page 723.
- strolling idem, page 827.
- vagabond idem, page 942.
- vagrant idem, page 942.
- wandering idem, page 961.