nux
See also: Nüx
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *knuks, from a root *knu- also found in Proto-Celtic *knūs (source of Irish cnó) and Proto-Germanic *hnuts (source of English nut). Based on the form of the nouns and the restriction of the root to Germanic, Celtic and Italic, it has been argued to be of non-Indo-European origin. De Vaan suggests that it is related to nūgae (“trifles”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
nux f (genitive nucis); third declension
- nut
- nut tree
- Inter primas germinant ulmus, salix, nuces.
- Among the first to sprout are the elm, the willow, and the nut tree.
- a fruit with a hard shell or rind
- nux amara ― a bitter almond
- castaneae nuces ― chestnuts
- nux pinea ― the fruit of the tithymalus
- (figuratively) a thing of no value
- c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 2.3.45:
- Nōn ego tuam empsim vītam vitiosā nuce.
- I should not have bought your life with a vicious worthless thing.
- Nōn ego tuam empsim vītam vitiosā nuce.
- (poetic) almond tree
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
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”)
- nuceus
- nucicla
- nucifer
- nucifrangibulum
- nucinus
- nucipersicum
- nuciprūnum
- nucleus
- nucunculus
- nucāmenta
- nucēs relinquō (“I give up childish sports”)
- nucētum
- nux cassa (“nutshell”)
- nux indica
- nux muscata
- nux vomica
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Vulgar Latin:
- *nocem
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- *nocem
- Borrowings:
References edit
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “nŭx”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 7: N–Pas, page 257
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “nux”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 420
Further reading 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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
Zhuang edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /nu˦˨/
- Tone numbers: nu4
- Hyphenation: nux
Noun edit
nux (1957–1982 spelling nuч)