nasus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nasus (“spout, nozzle”)

Noun

nasus

1. (zoology) A horn-like snout on certain termites, capable of producing noxious secretions.

Related terms

• nasute

Anagrams

• Ansus, NUSAS, Susan, sauns, unass

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Latin

nāsus (nose)

Alternative forms

• nāsum (pre-Classical)

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnaː.sus/, [ˈnäːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈna.sus/, [ˈnäːs̬us]

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Noun

nāsus m (genitive nāsī); second declension

1. (anatomy) nose
2. sense of smell
3. (by extension) spout, nozzle

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	nāsus	nāsī
Genitive	nāsī	nāsōrum
Dative	nāsō	nāsīs
Accusative	nāsum	nāsōs
Ablative	nāsō	nāsīs
Vocative	nāse	nāsī

Synonyms

• (nose): nāris

Derived terms

• nāsālis
• nāsūtē
• nāsūtus

Related terms

• nāris

Descendants

• Catalan: nas
• Corsican: nasu
• Dalmatian: nuos
• Franco-Provençal: nâs
• French: nez, naseau
• Friulian: nâs
• Istro-Romanian: nås
• Italian: naso
• Megleno-Romanian: nas
• Occitan: nas
• Piedmontese: nas
• Romanian: nas
• Romansch: nas
• Sardinian: nasu
• Sicilian: nasu
• Spanish: naso
• Venetian: naxo
• Walloon: nez

References

• “nasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nasus 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)
• nasus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “nasus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nasus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly