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Norma

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female given name originating as a coinage.

    "I wish I could remember that girl's Christian name. Something connected with a song...Thora? Speak to me, Thora, Thora, Thora. Something like that, or Myra? Myra, oh Myra my love is all for thee... Norma? Or do I mean Maritana? Norma - Norma Restarick. That's right, I'm sure."

  2. 2
    An inconspicuous constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a carpenter's square. It lies south of the constellations Scorpius and Centaurus.
Noun
  1. 1
    A norm.
  2. 2
    A template.
  3. 3
    A square for measuring right angles.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Coined name of an imaginary Celtic priestess in Bellini's opera Norma (1831). Sometimes explained as Latin norma (“pattern, model”), or as a feminine form of Norman.

Etymology 2

Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From Latin norma (“a carpenter's square”).

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Latin norma. Doublet of norm.

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