Νομᾶν (Noman)

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

It can also be a form of νομάζω, “call by name; (garbled)”. It is the future active participle vocative singular masculine.

It can also be a form of Νόμας, “Numa Pompilius — second king of Rome”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun or adjective.

Found 28 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Romulus 18.5: τοῦτον Ἑρσιλίας ἄνδρα καὶ πάππον Ὁστιλίου τοῦ μετὰ Νομᾶν βασιλεύσαντος γενέσθαι λέγουσιν. αὖθις δὲ πολλῶν ἀγώνων ἐν βραχεῖ συνισταμένων ὡς εἰκός, ἑνὸς μάλιστα τοῦ τελ …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.75.2: ἔπειτα Νόμας Πομπίλιος αἱρεθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ δήμου τρία καὶ τετταράκοντα ἔτη βασιλεῦσαι. Τύλλος δὲ Ὁστίλιος μετὰ Νόμαν δύο καὶ τριάκοντα. ὁ δʼ ἐπὶ τούτῳ βασιλεύσας Ἄγκος Μάρκιος τέτταρα πρὸς τοῖς εἴκοσι. μετὰ δὲ Μάρκιον Λεύκιος …

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.