Numida

From Latin Numida (“Numidian”).

Numida m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Numididae – helmeted guinea fowl.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Reptilia – class; Aves – subclass; Neognathae – infraclass; Galloanseri – superorder; Galliformes – order; Numididae – family

• (genus): Numida meleagris – sole species

• Numida on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Numida on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Numida on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Numida at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Gill, F.; Wright, M. (2006), Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, →ISBN

From Ancient Greek νομάς (nomás) (this name also meant "Numidian"). Doublet of the later Nomas.

Historian Gabriel Camps, however, argues for its African origin.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnʊ.mɪ.da]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnuː.mi.da]

Numida m (genitive Numidae); first declension

1. a nomad
2. Numidian

First-declension noun.

• Numidia
• Numidicus

• Portuguese: Númida

Numida m (genitive Numidae); first declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Plotius Numida, a friend of Horace

First-declension noun.

Numida (genitive Numidae); first-declension one-termination adjective

1. Numidian
   • 2 CE, Ovid, The Art of Love 2.183:

     Obsequium tigresque domat Numidasque leones;
     Rustica paulatim taurus aratra subit.

     • 1929 translation by J. H. Mozley, revised by G. P. Goold.

       Compliance tames tigers and Numidian lions; little by little the bull submits to the rustic plough.

   • 12 CE – 13 CE, Ovid, Letters from the Black Sea 4.9.28, (alternatively "Numidi" in some editions^[1]):

     Signa quoque in sella nossem formata curuli
     et totum Numidae sculptile dentis opus.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 100 CE – c. 130 CE, Juvenal, Satires 4.100:

     Profuit ergo nihil misero quod comminus ursos / figebat Numidas Albana nudus harena / venator.

     • 2004 translation by Susanna Morton Braund

       It turned out to do the unfortunate youth no good to appear naked as a hunter in the Alban amphitheatre, spearing Numidian bears close up.

First-declension one-termination adjective.

• Numidus

• “Numida”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Numida”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Numida”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.