nef
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Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from French nef. Doublet of nave and nau.
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nef (plural nefs)
- An extravagant table ornament and container used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, made in the shape of a ship.
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Etymology 2 edit
Short for numerically effective; introduced by Miles Reid.
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nef (not comparable)
- (algebraic geometry) Of a line bundle on a complete algebraic variety over a field: such that the degree of its restriction to every algebraic curve in the variety is non-negative.
- 1983, Miles Reid, “Minimal Models of Canonical 3-Folds”, in Advanced Studies in Pure Mathematics, volume 1, page 131:
- […] this condition is the numerical consequence of the condition that for some , the linear system is effective and free; thus nef = "numerically (effective and free)".
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French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle French nef, from Old French nef, from Latin nāvem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Displaced by bateau and navire in the sense of "boat".
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nef f (plural nefs)
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Further reading edit
- “nef”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse nef, from Proto-Germanic *nabją. Cognate with English neb.
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nef n (genitive singular nefs, nominative plural nef)
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Mauritian Creole edit
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nef
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nef
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Etymology edit
From Old French nef, from Latin nāvis, nāvem.
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Old Cornish edit
Etymology edit
from Proto-Brythonic *neβ̃, from Proto-Celtic *nemos, from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (“cloud”).
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nef
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Etymology edit
From Latin nāvis, nāvem.
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nef oblique singular, f (oblique plural nés, nominative singular nef, nominative plural nés)
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Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *nabją.
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nef n (genitive nefs, plural nef)
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nef (nominative plural nefs)
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Welsh edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Welsh new, from Old Welsh nem, from Proto-Brythonic *neβ̃, from Proto-Celtic *nemos, from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (“cloud”). Cognate with Breton neñv, Cornish nev and Irish neamh.
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nef f (plural nefoedd, not mutable)
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References edit
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “nef”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies