nomarch
nounEtymology From Ancient Greek νομάρχης (nomárkhēs), νόμαρχος (nómarkhos), corresponding to nome + -arch.
1
Historical The governor of an ancient Egyptian nome.
2
The chief administrator of a modern Greek nomarchy.
- The boys had made kokoretsi out of the intestines and offal of the goat they had taken from the resentful nomarch of the village, and were watching it sizzle in the cinders of the fire.1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 229: