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Webster 1913 Edition

Nomad

Nom′ad

,
Noun.
[L.
nomas
,
-adis
, Gr. [GREEK], [GREEK], pasturing, roaming without fixed home, fr. [GREEK] a pasture, allotted abode, fr. [GREEK] to distribute, allot, drive to pasture; prob. akin to AS.
niman
to take, and E.
nimble
: cf. F.
nomade
. Cf.
Astronomy
,
Economy
,
Nimble
,
Nemesis
,
Numb
,
Number
.]
One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game.

Nom′ad

,
Adj.
Roving; nomadic.

Webster 1828 Edition

Nomad

NOMAD

,
Noun.
[Gr. Living on pasturage, to distribute or divide, to feed. This verb is connected with L. Nemus, a wood, a place over-grown with trees, and also a pasture, the primary sense of which is probably to spring or shoot, for the verb signifies among other things, to leap, to dance, and may be allied to Eng. nimble. Cattle originally subsisted by browsing, as they still do in new settlements.] One who leads a wandering life, and subsists by tending herds of cattle which graze on herbage of spontaneous growth. Such is the practice at this day in the central and northern parts of Asia, and the Numidians in Africa are supposed to have been so called from this practice.

Definition 2024

nómad

nómad

See also: nomad and nomád

Old Irish

Adjective

Old Irish ordinal numbers
 <  8th 9th 10th  > 
    Cardinal : noí
    Ordinal : nómad

nómad

  1. ninth

Inflection

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References

  • “nómad” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *naumetos.

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