The corpus record

νουμην-ία

noumenia · ἡ

new moon : the first of the month

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Where it lives

Esdras I 9 · 10.94/10k
Oeconomica II 3 · 6.38/10k
Economics 3 · 4.84/10k
Clouds 3 · 3.12/10k
Osee 1 · 2.65/10k
Wasps 2 · 2.06/10k
Esdras II 2 · 1.69/10k
Paralipomenon II 3 · 1.52/10k
Against Aristogeiton 1 1 · 1.49/10k
Acharnians 1 · 1.41/10k
Ezechiel 4 · 1.38/10k
Judith 1 · 1.14/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

νουμην-ία · noumēn-ia — LSJ

new moon : the first of the month, true, natural new moon

new moon : the first of the month, Pi. l.c., Antipho Fr. 58 (pl.), Ar. Eq. 43, Ach. 999 (pl.), etc. ; ν. κατὰ σελήνην to denote the true or natural new moon, as opp. to the νουμηνία of the calendars, Th. 2.28 ; also ἡ κατὰ θεὸν ν. PMag.Par. 1.787, 2389 ; ν. τοῦ ἔτους, of the spring equinox, Ptol. Tetr. 91.

In the wild

νουμηνίαις · noumēniais Aristophanes, Acharnians 995 (DIORISIS sentence 753)
νουμηνίᾳ · noumēniai Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 924)
νουμηνία · noumēnia Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 926)
νουμηνίᾳ · noumēniai Aristophanes, Clouds (DIORISIS sentence 927)
νουμηνίᾳ · noumēniai Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 47)
νουμηνία · noumēnia Aristophanes, Wasps (DIORISIS sentence 127)

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Where it came from

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