"Norma" meaning in English

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Proper name

Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mə Etymology: 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 templates: {{uder|en|la|norma||pattern, model}} Latin norma (“pattern, model”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Norma
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Etymology number: 1

Proper name

Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mə Etymology: Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From Latin norma (“a carpenter's square”). Etymology templates: {{wp|+ (constellation)}}, {{uder|en|la|norma||a carpenter's square}} Latin norma (“a carpenter's square”) Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} 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. Derived forms: Normae Translations (constellation): 矩尺座 (Jǔchǐzuò) (Chinese Mandarin), Winkelhaak [masculine] (Dutch), Ortilo (Esperanto), Kulmaviivoitin (Finnish), Règle [feminine] (French), Escuadro (Galician), Winkelmaß [neuter] (German), Norma (Indonesian), an Riail [feminine] (Irish), Бұрыштық (Burıštıq) (Kazakh), Norma [feminine] (Latin), Sesiku (Malay), Węgielnica [feminine] (Polish), Науго́льник (Naugólʹnik) [masculine] (Russian), Norma (Spanish), Vinkelhaken (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-Norma-en-name-bjYdkdZh Categories (other): Constellations, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 45 55 Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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Etymology number: 2
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.