Norma

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A female given name from coinages.
• An inconspicuous constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a carpenter's square. It lies south of the constellations Scorpius and Centaurus.

Origin

• Coined name of an imaginary Celtic priestess in Bellini's opera Norma (1831). Sometimes explained as Latin norma, or as a feminine form of Norman.
• Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From Latin norma.