nomad: [16] The Greek verb némein had a very wide range of senses. It originally meant ‘deal out, dispense’, a signification mirrored in the derived nemesis [16] (etymologically the ‘dealing out’ of what is due) and the possibly related number. It developed subsequently to ‘inhabit’ and to ‘control, manage’ (which is represented in English economy).
But a further strand was ‘put out to pasture’; and from the same stem as produced némein was formed the adjective nomás ‘wandering about to find pasture for herds or flocks’. Its plural nomádes was used to denote pastoral people who lived in this way, and the word was passed on via Latin nomades and French (singular) nomade into English. => economy, nemesis
nomad (n.)
1550s, from Middle French nomade (16c.), from Latin Nomas (genitive Nomadis) "wandering groups in Arabia," from Greek nomas (genitive nomados, plural nomades) "roaming, roving, wandering" (to find pastures for flocks or herds), related to nomos "pasture, pasturage, grazing," literally "land allotted," from PIE root *nem- "to divide, distribute, allot" (see nemesis).
nomad 双语例句
1. He was a patriarchal Semitic nomad.
他是族长制闪米特游牧部落的一员.
来自英汉非文学 - 历史
2. He was indeed a nomad of no nationality.
他的确是个无国籍的游民.
来自辞典例句
3. At this stage, I started to work on the nomad's wife.
在这个阶段我开始画牧民的妻子.
来自互联网
4. The bug showing multiple nomad invasions warn has been fixed.
表现侵犯警告的多样游牧民族的虫已经被修理.
来自互联网
5. I think these devices facilitate our inner digital nomad.