napus

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

• Aromanian: napu
• Catalan: nap
• → English: napiform
• Italian: napo
• Occitan: nap
• → Old English: næp
  • English: neep, turnip
  • → Old Norse: næpa
    • Icelandic: næpa
    • Norwegian Bokmål: nepe
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: nepe

• Old French: nef
  • French: navet
  • Norman: navet
  • Walloon: navea
• Portuguese: nabo
• Romanian: nap
• Spanish: nabo, naba

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.