naris

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛə.ɹɪs/

Noun

naris (plural nares)

1. a nostril

Anagrams

• Nairs, Nasir, Rains, Risan, arnis, nasri, rains, ranis, sarin, siRNA, sirna

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Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese nariz. Cognates with Kabuverdianu naris.

Noun

naris

1. nose

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Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese nariz.

Noun

naris

1. nose

References

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

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Latin

Etymology

From nāsus with rhotacism.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnaː.ris/, [ˈnäːrɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈna.ris/, [ˈnäːris]

Noun

nāris f (genitive nāris); third declension

1. (usually in the plural) (anatomy) A nostril, nose.
2. An opening, orifice, vent, air-hole.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	nāris	nārēs
Genitive	nāris	nārium
Dative	nārī	nāribus
Accusative	nārem	nārēs nārīs
Ablative	nāre	nāribus
Vocative	nāris	nārēs

Synonyms

• (nose): nāsus

Derived terms

• nārinōsus
• nāriputēns

Related terms

• nāsus
• nāsūtē
• nāsūtus

Descendants

• Aromanian: nari, nare
• Asturian: ñariz, nariz, ñarra
• Catalan: nariu
• Corsican: naru
• English: naris
• French: narine
• Friulian: narile
• Galician: nariz

• Italian: narice
• Portuguese: nariz, narina
• Romanian: nară
• Sardinian: nare, naris, naricre, naricru
• Sicilian: narici
• Spanish: nariz, narina
• Walloon: narene

References

• “naris”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “naris”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• naris in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.