The corpus record

νᾶμα

nama · τό

anything flowing, running water, stream, spring

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Where it lives

Critias 4 · 8.09/10k
De Mundo 4 · 6.31/10k
Phoenissae 5 · 5.18/10k
Canticum 1 · 5.14/10k
Heracles 2 · 2.56/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Timaeus 4 · 1.69/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Phaedrus 2 · 1.2/10k
On Hunting 1 · 1.1/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

anything flowing, running water, stream, spring

anything flowing, running water, stream, spring, ν. Μναμοσύνας cj. in Simon. 45, cf. A. Pr. 806, S. Ant. 1130 (lyr.); Κασταλίδος νάματα Pae.Delph. 1.6; δακρύων θερμὰ ν. S. Tr. 919; νάματʼ ὄσσων E. HF 625; ν. πυρός Id. Med. 1187; ν. Βάκχιον Ar. Ec. 14; μὰ νάματα Antiph. 296 ( = Timocl. 38); ν. θυγατέρων ταύρων, i.e. honey, Ph. Tars. ap. Gal. 13.269; φλέγματος, χολῆς ν., Philostr. Gym. 42: freq. in Pl., as κρηνῶν καὶ ποταμῶν νάματα Criti. 111d: metaph., λόγων ν. Ti. 75e.

2 wooden conduit

wooden conduit, Hsch.

νάματα· προβολαί, Id.

In the wild

νᾶμα · nama Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 803–806
νάμασί · namasi Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 123)
νάματα · namata Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 31)
ναμάτων · namatōn Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 52)
ναμάτων · namatōn Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 93)
νάματος · namatos Aristotle, Politics 1276a (DIORISIS sentence 933)

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Where it came from

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