negus
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Named from Colonel Francis Negus (died 1732), its creator.
Noun
negus (countable and uncountable, plural neguses)
- A drink of wine, lemon, sugar, nutmeg and hot water.
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, page 177 →ISBN
- And when he got home he had a glass of hot negus in his wife's sitting-room, and read the last number of the “Little Dorrit” of the day with great inward satisfaction.
- 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter VII, Section vi
- Esther began […] to cry. But when the fire had been lit specially to warm her chilled limbs and Adela had plied her with hot negus she began to feel rather a heroine.
- 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 258:
- ‘I could sure use a cup of negus and maybe some hot soup,’ he sniffs.
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, page 177 →ISBN
Translations
a drink
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Etymology 2
Borrowed from Amharic ንጉሥ (nəguś, “king”).
Noun
negus (plural neguses)
- (historical) A ruler of Ethiopia or of a province of Ethiopia; specifically, the supreme ruler of Ethiopia before 1974.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 240:
- It was a Syrian merchant, Frumentius, who is credited with converting Ezana, the Negus (king or emperor) of the powerful northern Ethiopian state of Aksum.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 240:
Translations
supreme Ethiopian ruler
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Amharic ንጉሥ (nəguś, “king”).
Pronunciation
Noun
negus m (uncountable) Template:wiki
- (historical) Title of the highest grade in the hierarchy of the Ethiopian Empire; Negus
Derived terms
See also
Portuguese
Noun
negus m (plural neguses)
- (historical) Negus (supreme Ethiopian ruler)
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