nomadic

English

Alternative forms

• nomadick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek νομαδικός (nomadikós), equivalent to nomad (“a member of a society or class of herdsmen”) + -ic (“forming adjectives”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nəʊˈmæd.ɪk/
• Rhymes: -ædɪk

Adjective

nomadic (comparative more nomadic, superlative most nomadic)

1. Of or relating to nomads, whether
   1. (anthropology) Of or related to itinerant herdsmen
   2. (figuratively) Of or related to any habitually wandering person or animal
      • 2013 January 1, Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore, “Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight”, in American Scientist^[1], volume 101, number 1, page 47–48:

        Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.

Synonyms

• (all): nomad
• (of or related to itinerant herdsmen): pastoral
• (habitually wandering): wandering, peripatetic, itinerant, itinerate, unsettled, vagabond, roving, drifting, roaming, wayfaring, vagrant, transient, rambling, peregrine, ambulatory, ambulant, erratic, errant, rootless, gypsy, floating, perambulatory, perambulant, discursive, meandering, ambling, footloose, prodigal

Translations

of or relating to itinerant herdsmen

• Armenian: քոչվորական (hy) (kʿočʿvorakan)
• Catalan: nòmada (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 游牧 (zh) (yóumù)

• Czech: nomádský
• Esperanto: nomada
• Finnish: paimentolais-
• French: nomade (fr)
• German: nomadisch (de)

• Hungarian: nomád (hu)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nomadisk

  Nynorsk: nomadisk

• Portuguese: nómada (pt) (Portugal), nômade (pt) (Brazil), nomádico
• Russian: кочево́й (ru) (kočevój)
• Spanish: nómada (es)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can

of or relating to any habitually wandering person

• Catalan: nòmada (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: nomádský, kočovný (cs)
• Finnish: kiertelevä (fi), liikkuva (fi)
• French: nomade (fr)

• German: nomadisch (de)
• Maori: kānekeneke, kōkewa
• Portuguese: nómada (pt) (Portugal), nômade (pt) (Brazil), nomádico
• Russian: кочево́й (ru) (kočevój), кочу́ющий (ru) (kočújuščij)
• Spanish: nómada (es)

Anagrams

• mandioc, monacid, monadic