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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *knew- (compare Old Irish cnú, Old English hnutu, Albanian nyç (“a gnarl”)).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
nux f (genitive nucis); third declension
- A nut
- A nut-tree
- Inter primas germinant ulmus, salix, nuces.
- A fruit with a hard shell or rind
- Nux amara.
- A bitter almond.
- Castaneae nuces.
- Nux pinea.
- The fruit of the tithymalus.
- Nux amara.
- (figuratively) a thing of no value
- Non ego tuam empsim vitam vitiosā nuce.
- I should not have bought your life with a vicious worthless thing.
- Non ego tuam empsim vitam vitiosā nuce.
- (poetic) an almond tree
Inflection[edit]
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | nux | nucēs |
| Genitive | nucis | nucum |
| Dative | nucī | nucibus |
| Accusative | nucem | nucēs |
| Ablative | nuce | nucibus |
| Vocative | nux | nucēs |
Synonyms[edit]
- (a thing of no value): res vel vilissima
Derived terms[edit]
- in nuce (“in a nutshell”)
- nucēs relinquō (“I give up childish sports”)
- nux cassa (“nutshell”)
- nux indica
- nux muscata
- nux vomica
- nucleus
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- nux in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- nux in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nux in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- nux in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- nux in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers