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nomia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.06 in modern English

Syllables
no-mia
IPA
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A nymph of Arcadia.

noun

Any of various ground-nesting halictid bees of the genus Nomia, native to Asia, many species of which have opalescent bands on the metasoma.

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Νομία (Nomía).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

nomias (plural)

Questions

What does nomia mean?
A nymph of Arcadia.
Where does nomia come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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