Norma

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mə

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.

Norma

1. A female given name originating as a coinage.
   • 1966, Agatha Christie, Third Girl, page 6:

     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.

• Popular in the U.S.A. in the 1930s.

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

Norma

1. (astronomy) An inconspicuous constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a carpenter's square. It lies south of the constellations Scorpius and Centaurus.

• Normae

• Armon, Manor, Maron, Moran, Narom, Nor Am, Nor-Am, NorAm, Roman, manor, moran, morna, roman

Borrowed from Spanish Norma.

Norma

1. a female given name from Spanish

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Norma.

Norma f

1. a female given name

Matronymics

• son of Norma: Normuson
• daughter of Norma: Normudóttir

From norma (“rule, norm”), itself from Latin nōrma, of the same meaning.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnoɾma/ [ˈnoɾ.ma]
• Rhymes: -oɾma
• Syllabification: Nor‧ma

Norma f

1. a female given name

Borrowed from Spanish Norma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnoɾma/, [ˈnoɾ.mɐ]
• Hyphenation: Nor‧ma

Norma (Baybayin spelling ᜈᜓᜇ᜔ᜋ)

1. a female given name from Spanish