nutus

Latin

Etymology

From *nuō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnuː.tus/, [ˈnuːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnu.tus/, [ˈnuːt̪us]

Noun

nūtus m (genitive nūtūs); fourth declension

1. nod, nodding
2. downward tendency or motion; the pull of gravity
3. command, will, pleasure

   ad nutum ― at will

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	nūtus	nūtūs
Genitive	nūtūs	nūtuum
Dative	nūtuī	nūtibus
Accusative	nūtum	nūtūs
Ablative	nūtū	nūtibus
Vocative	nūtus	nūtūs

Descendants

• Portuguese: nuto
• Spanish: nuto

References

• “nutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • gravity: nutus et pondus or simply nutus (ῥοπή)
    
  • to take one's directions from another; to obey him in everything: se convertere, converti ad alicuius nutum
    
  • to be at the beck and call of another; to be his creature: totum se fingere et accommodare ad alicuius arbitrium et nutum