nasus
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin nāsus (“the nose; the nozzle or spout”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈneɪ.zəs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈneɪ.səs/
- Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -eɪzəs, (General American) -eɪsəs
Noun
[edit]nasus (plural nasi)
- (entomology) A horn-like elongated rostrum on the head of soldier termites of the subfamily Nasutiterminae, capable of producing and spraying noxious secretions for defense.
- (entomology) A prolongation on the front of the head of a cranefly.
Derived terms
[edit]- nasute (adjective)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “nasus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “nasus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *nāssos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈnaː.sus/, [ˈnäːs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈna.sus/, [ˈnäːs̬us]
Noun
[edit]nāsus m (genitive nāsī); second declension
- (anatomy) The nose.
- c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmen 13 11-14:
- nam unguentum dabo, quod meae puellae,
donarunt Veneres Cupidinesque,
quod tu cum olfacies, deos rogabis,
totum ut te faciant, Fabulle, nasum.- for I will give you perfume, which to my girl
Venuses and Cupids have given,
which when you smell it, you will ask the gods,
to make you, Fabullus, all nose
- for I will give you perfume, which to my girl
- nam unguentum dabo, quod meae puellae,
- Synonym: nāris
- The sense of smell.
- (by extension) The projecting part of a vessel; the spout or nozzle.
Inflection
[edit]Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | nāsus | nāsī |
Genitive | nāsī | nāsōrum |
Dative | nāsō | nāsīs |
Accusative | nāsum | nāsōs |
Ablative | nāsō | nāsīs |
Vocative | nāse | nāsī |
Derived terms
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[edit]Descendants
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References
[edit]- “nasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nasus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- nasus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “nasus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “nasus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “nāris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 400
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