nasal
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Medieval Latin nāsālis, from nāsus (“the nose”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of nasalis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
nasal (comparative more nasal, superlative most nasal)
- (anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion.
- 2013 March, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist[1], volume 101, number 2, page 98:
- Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.
- (phonetics) Having a sound imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng.
- nasal vowel
- (phonetics) Characterized by resonance in the nasal passage.
- nasal utterance
- 2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 2:
- "Are you sure you're OK?" she said with a nasal Australian accent.
- (music) Sharp, penetrating.
Derived terms
- alinasal
- antronasal
- basinasal
- binasal
- bucconasal
- circumnasal
- craniofrontonasal
- denasal
- dorsonasal
- endonasal
- epinasal
- ethmonasal
- extranasal
- frontonasal
- hypernasal
- hyponasal
- inferonasal
- infranasal
- internasal
- intranasal
- labionasal
- lacrimonasal
- linguonasal
- maxillonasal
- mesonasal
- muconasal
- nasalance
- nasal bone
- nasal cannula
- nasal capsule
- nasal cavity
- nasal concha
- nasal congestion
- nasal consonant
- nasal cycle
- nasal fossa
- nasal index
- nasal irrigation
- nasalism
- nasality
- nasalize, nasalise
- nasally
- nasal mutation
- nasalness
- nasal obstruction
- nasal polyp
- nasal septum
- nasal spray
- nasal tampon
- nasal vowel
- nasalward, nasalwards
- naso-
- nonnasal
- occipitonasal
- oculonasal
- orbitonasal
- oronasal, oralnasal
- orthonasal
- palatonasal
- palpebronasal
- paranasal
- perinasal
- pharyngonasal
- postnasal
- prenasal
- retronasal
- rostronasal
- septonasal
- sinonasal, sinusonasal
- subnasal
- superonasal
- supranasal
- temporonasal
- tracheonasal
- transnasal
- ventronasal
- vomeronasal
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Noun
nasal (plural nasals)
- (medicine, archaic) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
- (phonetics) Ellipsis of nasal consonant..
- Hyponym: velar nasal
- (phonetics) Ellipsis of nasal vowel..
- (historical) The part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
- 1909, Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor, page 78:
- The nasal continued in use until about 1140, when it was generally discarded, but isolated examples may be found in every succeeding century down to the seventeenth.
- 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam Books, published 2011, page 463:
- Rorge had donned a black halfhelm with a broad iron nasal that made it hard to see that he did not have a nose.
- (anatomy) Ellipsis of nasal bone..
- (zootomy) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.
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References
- “nasal”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “nasal”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Anagrams
Asturian
Pronunciation
Adjective
nasal (epicene, plural nasales)
Catalan
Pronunciation
Adjective
nasal m or f (masculine and feminine plural nasals)
Derived terms
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin nāsālis, from Latin nāsus (“nose”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
nasal (feminine nasale, masculine plural nasaux, feminine plural nasales)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “nasal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
Pronunciation
Adjective
nasal m or f (plural nasais)
Further reading
- “nasal”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
German
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
nasal (strong nominative masculine singular nasaler, not comparable)
Declension
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist nasal | sie ist nasal | es ist nasal | sie sind nasal | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | nasaler | nasale | nasales | nasale |
genitive | nasalen | nasaler | nasalen | nasaler | |
dative | nasalem | nasaler | nasalem | nasalen | |
accusative | nasalen | nasale | nasales | nasale | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der nasale | die nasale | das nasale | die nasalen |
genitive | des nasalen | der nasalen | des nasalen | der nasalen | |
dative | dem nasalen | der nasalen | dem nasalen | den nasalen | |
accusative | den nasalen | die nasale | das nasale | die nasalen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein nasaler | eine nasale | ein nasales | (keine) nasalen |
genitive | eines nasalen | einer nasalen | eines nasalen | (keiner) nasalen | |
dative | einem nasalen | einer nasalen | einem nasalen | (keinen) nasalen | |
accusative | einen nasalen | eine nasale | ein nasales | (keine) nasalen |
Derived terms
Further reading
Interlingua
Adjective
nasal (not comparable)
Piedmontese
Pronunciation
Adjective
nasal
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
nasal m or f (plural nasais, not comparable)
Derived terms
Noun
nasal f (plural nasais)
- nasal consonant
Noun
nasal m (plural nasais)
- nasal bone
Related terms
Spanish
Etymology
From Late Latin nāsālis, from Latin nāsus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
nasal m or f (masculine and feminine plural nasales)
Derived terms
Noun
nasal f (plural nasales)
- nasal, nasal consonant
Related terms
Further reading
- “nasal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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