Numida

From Latin Numida (“Numidian”).

Numida m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Numididae – the 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. and 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.d̪a]

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”, 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.