Νομᾶ (Noma)

Νομᾶ is an Ancient Greek form of νομή, meaning “pasture”.

It can also be a form of Νομάς, “Nomas — a Numidian, nomad”.

It can also be a form of νομεύς, “herdsman”.

It can also be a form of νομάζω, “call by name; (garbled)”. It is the 1st person singular future active indicative or 2nd person singular future middle indicative.

Found 75 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Theseus 1.2: ἐπεὶ δὲ τὸν περὶ Λυκούργου τοῦ νομοθέτου καὶ Νομᾶ τοῦ βασιλέως λόγον ἐκδόντες, ἐδοκοῦμεν οὐκ ἂν ἀλόγως τῷ Ῥωμύλῳ προσαναβῆναι, πλησίον τῶν χρόνων αὐτοῦ τῇ ἱστο …

Plutarch, Numa 1.2: λεγομένου δὲ οὖν ὡς Νομᾶς γένοιτο Πυθαγόρου συνήθης, οἱ μὲν ὅλως ἀξιοῦσι μηδὲν Ἑλληνικῆς παιδεύσεως Νομᾷ μετεῖναι, καθάπερ ἢ φύσει δυνατὸν καὶ αὐτάρκη γενέσθαι πρὸς ἀρετὴν ἢ βελτίονι Πυθαγόρου βαρβάρῳ τινὶ τὴν τοῦ …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 2.27.4: … πολλοῦ κείμενον παραλαβόντες οὐκ ἐτόλμησαν ἀνελεῖν, ἐκ πολλῶν μὲν καὶ ἄλλων καταλαμβάνομαι, μάλιστα δʼ ἐκ τῶν Νόμα Πομπιλίου τοῦ μετὰ Ῥωμύλον ἄρξαντος νόμων, ἐν οἷς καὶ οὗτος γέγραπται· ἐὰν πατὴρ υἱῷ συγχωρήσῃ γυναῖκα ἀγαγέσ …

All forms of νομή (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.