napus

English

Noun

napus

1. plural of napu

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Latin

nāpī (turnips)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek νᾶπυ (nâpu, “mustard”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnaː.pus/, [ˈnäːpʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈna.pus/, [ˈnäːpus]

Noun

nāpus m (genitive nāpī); second declension

1. turnip, field mustard (Brassica rapa)
2. rapeseed (Brassica napus)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	nāpus	nāpī
Genitive	nāpī	nāpōrum
Dative	nāpō	nāpīs
Accusative	nāpum	nāpōs
Ablative	nāpō	nāpīs
Vocative	nāpe	nāpī

Synonyms

• (turnip): rāpum

Derived terms

• nāpīna

Related terms

• nāpy

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: napu
  • Romanian: nap
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: napo
• Padanian:
  • ⇒ Emilian: navoun
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: nef ⇒ navet
    • French: navet
    • Norman: navet
  • ⇒ Walloon: navea
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: napo, nap (Benasqués)
  • Catalan: nap
  • Old Occitan: nap ⇒ nabet
    • Auvergnat: navet
    • Gascon: nap, napo, nabet
    • Languedocien: nap
    • Limousin: naveu, ⇒ nabís
    • Provençal: navet
    • Vivaro-Alpine: nap, nabet, ⇒ naveu
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Portuguese: nabo
  • Spanish: nabo, naba
• Borrowings:
  • → English: napiform
  • → Old English: nǣp
    • Middle English: nepe (see there for further descendants)
    • ⇒ English: turnip (see there for further descendants)
    • → Old Norse: næpa
      • Icelandic: næpa
      • Norwegian Bokmål: nepe
      • Norwegian Nynorsk: nepe

References

• “napus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• napus 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)
• napus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.