nasute
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin nasutus.
Adjective
nasute (comparative more nasute, superlative most nasute)
- Having a long snout.
- (obsolete) Having a sensitive sense of smell.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Evelyn to this entry?)
- (obsolete) pedantic; captious
Noun
nasute (plural nasutes)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “nasute”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From nāsūtus (“large-nosed, satirical”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /naːˈsuː.teː/, [näːˈs̠uːt̪eː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /naˈsu.te/, [näˈs̬uːt̪e]
Adverb
nāsūtē (comparative nāsūtius, superlative nāsūtissimē)
Related terms
References
- “nasute”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- nasute in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.