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English

Etymology

From French nomade

Noun

nomade (plural nomades)

1. Archaic form of nomad.

Anagrams

• Modane, Modena, daemon, dæmon, moaned, modena

Danish

Etymology

From French nomade

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?d?

Noun

nomade c (singular definite nomaden, plural indefinite nomader)

1. nomad

Declension

Further reading

• “nomade” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From French nomade

Pronunciation

Noun

nomade m or f (plural nomaden, diminutive nomadetje n)

1. nomad

French

Etymology

From Middle French nomade

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?.mad/

Adjective

nomade (plural nomades)

1. nomadic

Noun

nomade m or f (plural nomades)

1. nomad

Further reading

• “nomade” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• émonda, madone, Madone

Interlingua

Noun

nomade (plural nomades)

1. nomad

Adjective

nomade (comparative plus nomade, superlative le plus nomade)

1. nomad, nomadic

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (nomás, “roaming”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?.ma.de/

Adjective

nomade (plural nomadi)

1. nomadic

Noun

nomade m or f (plural nomadi)

1. nomad

Derived terms

• nomadismo
• nomadistico

See also

• zingaro

References

Anagrams

• Modena, monade

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nomadem, accusative singular of nomas.

Noun

nomade m or f (plural nomades)

1. nomad
   • 1540, Christophe Richer, Des Coustumes et manières de vivre des Turcs

     Les autres, à l'imitation des Nomades, n'ont point de maisons, mais pensans seulement de leurs tropeaux.

     The others, imitating the nomads, do not have houses, but think only of their flocks

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (nomás)

Noun

nomade m (definite singular nomaden, indefinite plural nomader, definite plural nomadene)

1. nomad

Derived terms

• nomadefolk
• nomadisk

Further reading

• “nomade” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (nomás)

Noun

nomade m (definite singular nomaden, indefinite plural nomadar, definite plural nomadane)

1. nomad

Derived terms

• nomadefolk
• nomadisk

Further reading

• “nomade” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

From Middle French nomade, from Latin nomas (“wandering shepherd”), from Ancient Greek ????? (nomás, “roaming, wandering, esp. to find pasture”), from Ancient Greek ????? (nomós, “pasture”). Compare Numidia.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n??mæd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?no?mæd/

Noun

nomad (plural nomads)

1. (anthropology) A member of a society or class who herd animals from pasture to pasture with no fixed home.
   • 1587, Philip Sidney & al. translating Philippe de Mornay as A Woorke Concerning the Trewnesse of the Christian Religion, viii, p. 113:

     The life of the people called the Nomads or Grazyers...

   • 2013 August, Henry Petroski, "Geothermal Energy" in American Scientist, Vol. 101, No. 4:

     Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.

2. (figuratively) Synonym of wanderer: an itinerant person.
3. (figuratively) A person who changes residence frequently.
4. (figuratively, sports) A player who changes teams frequently.

Synonyms

• (wanderer): See Thesaurus:vagabond

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

nomad (comparative more nomad, superlative most nomad)

1. Synonym of nomadic.

References

• "nomad, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• Damon, Doman, Domna, Mando, mad on, mad-on, mando, monad

Romanian

Etymology

From French nomade. Compare Aromanian numad.

Noun

nomad m (plural nomazi)

1. nomad

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?ma?d/
• Hyphenation: no?mad

Noun

nòm?d m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. nomad

Declension