Nor·sia /ˈnɔːr.sja/ n.
- 1Etruscan goddess of fate, fortune and the reckoning of time, worshipped at Volsinii; var. Nortia. What she settled stood: fixed, dated, open to inspection.
- 2the rite kept in her temple, the clavus annalis: one nail driven into the wall each year, by hand, in public, and never revised afterwards. Counting the wall was how you knew the year.