Numida

From Latin Numida (“Numidian”).

Numida m

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

• (genus): Aves - class; Saurornithes - informal group; Ornithothoraces, Ornithurae - clades; Carinatae - subclass; Neornithes - infraclass; Neognathae - parvclass; Galliformes - order; Numididae - family

• (genus): Numida meleagris - sole species

• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, →ISBN

• Numida on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Numida on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Numida on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Numida on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.

Usually explained as a borrowing from Ancient Greek νομάς (nomás).

However, argued by historian Gabriel Camps to be of African origin.

Confer with the later Nomas.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnu.mi.da/, [ˈnʊ.mɪ.da]

Numida m (genitive Numidae); first declension

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

First declension.

• Numidia
• Numidicus

• Portuguese: Númida

• 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