nassa

See also: Nassa

Italian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin nassa

Noun

nassa f (plural nasse)

1. creel, trap for fish

Anagrams

• sansa

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Latin

Alternative forms

• naxa

Etymology

Probably from Old Latin nasta, from Proto-Indo-European *ned- (“to turn, twist, knot”). See also Proto-Germanic *natją (English net).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnas.sa/, [ˈnäs̠ːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnas.sa/, [ˈnäsːä]

Noun

nassa f (genitive nassae); first declension

1. a narrow-necked basket for catching fish, weel
2. (figuratively) a snare, net

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	nassa	nassae
genitive	nassae	nassārum
dative	nassae	nassīs
accusative	nassam	nassās
ablative	nassā	nassīs
vocative	nassa	nassae

Descendants

• French: nasse
• Galician: nasa
• Italian: nassa
• Spanish: nasa

References

• “nassa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nassa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nassa 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)
• nassa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “nassa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers