νομάς

See also: Νομάς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From νομός (nomós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /no.más/ → /noˈmas/ → /noˈmas/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /no.más/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /noˈmas/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /noˈmas/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /noˈmas/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /noˈmas/

Noun

νομᾰ́ς • (nomás) m or f (genitive νομᾰ́δος); third declension

1. roaming about for pasture, pastoral tribes
2. (figuratively) prostitute
3. Numidian

Declension

Third declension of ὁ, ἡ νομᾰ́ς; τοῦ, τῆς νομᾰ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ, ἡ νομᾰ́ς ho, hē nomás	τὼ νομᾰ́δε tṑ nomáde	οἱ, αἱ νομᾰ́δες hoi, hai nomádes
Genitive	τοῦ, τῆς νομᾰ́δος toû, tês nomádos	τοῖν νομᾰ́δοιν toîn nomádoin	τῶν νομᾰ́δων tôn nomádōn
Dative	τῷ, τῇ νομᾰ́δῐ tôi, têi nomádi	τοῖν νομᾰ́δοιν toîn nomádoin	τοῖς, ταῖς νομᾰ́σῐ / νομᾰ́σῐν toîs, taîs nomási(n)
Accusative	τὸν, τὴν νομᾰ́δᾰ tòn, tḕn nomáda	τὼ νομᾰ́δε tṑ nomáde	τοὺς, τᾱ̀ς νομᾰ́δᾰς toùs, tā̀s nomádas
Vocative	νομᾰ́ς nomás	νομᾰ́δε nomáde	νομᾰ́δες nomádes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ds.

Derived terms

• νομαδικός (nomadikós)

Descendants

• Latin: Numida, Nomas

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^[1], 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.