nasal
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English, from Medieval Latin nāsālis, from nāsus (“the nose”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of nasalis.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
nasal (comparative more nasal, superlative most nasal)
- (anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion.
- 2013 March, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist[1], volume 101, number 2, page 98:
- Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.
- (phonetics) Having a sound imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng.
- nasal vowel
- (phonetics) Characterized by resonance in the nasal passage.
- nasal utterance
- 2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 2:
- "Are you sure you're OK?" she said with a nasal Australian accent.
- (music) Sharp, penetrating.
Derived termsEdit
- alinasal
- antronasal
- basinasal
- binasal
- bucconasal
- circumnasal
- craniofrontonasal
- denasal
- dorsonasal
- endonasal
- epinasal
- ethmonasal
- extranasal
- frontonasal
- hypernasal
- hyponasal
- inferonasal
- infranasal
- internasal
- intranasal
- labionasal
- lacrimonasal
- linguonasal
- maxillonasal
- mesonasal
- muconasal
- nasal bone
- nasal cannula
- nasal capsule
- nasal cavity
- nasal concha
- nasal congestion
- nasal consonant
- nasal cycle
- nasal fossa
- nasal index
- nasal irrigation
- nasal mutation
- nasal obstruction
- nasal polyp
- nasal septum
- nasal spray
- nasal tampon
- nasal vowel
- nasalance
- nasalism
- nasality
- nasalize, nasalise
- nasally
- nasalness
- nasalward, nasalwards
- naso-
- nonnasal
- occipitonasal
- oculonasal
- orbitonasal
- oronasal, oralnasal
- orthonasal
- palatonasal
- palpebronasal
- paranasal
- perinasal
- pharyngonasal
- postnasal
- prenasal
- retronasal
- rostronasal
- septonasal
- sinonasal, sinusonasal
- subnasal
- superonasal
- supranasal
- temporonasal
- tracheonasal
- transnasal
- ventronasal
- vomeronasal
TranslationsEdit
pertaining to the nose
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having a quality imparted by means of the nose
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NounEdit
nasal (plural nasals)
- (medicine, archaic) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
- (phonetics) Ellipsis of nasal consonant..
- Hyponym: velar nasal
- (phonetics) Ellipsis of nasal vowel..
- (historical) The part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
- 1909, Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor, page 78:
- The nasal continued in use until about 1140, when it was generally discarded, but isolated examples may be found in every succeeding century down to the seventeenth.
- 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam Books, published 2011, page 463:
- Rorge had donned a black halfhelm with a broad iron nasal that made it hard to see that he did not have a nose.
- (anatomy) Ellipsis of nasal bone..
- (zootomy) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.
TranslationsEdit
errhine
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vowel or consonant
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nasal bone
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ReferencesEdit
- “nasal”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “nasal”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
AnagramsEdit
AsturianEdit
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CatalanEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
nasal (masculine and feminine plural nasals)
Derived termsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin nāsālis, from Latin nāsus (“nose”).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
nasal (feminine nasale, masculine plural nasaux, feminine plural nasales)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “nasal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
GalicianEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
nasal m or f (plural nasais)
Further readingEdit
- “nasal” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
nasal (strong nominative masculine singular nasaler, not comparable)
DeclensionEdit
Positive forms of nasal (uncomparable)
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist nasal | sie ist nasal | es ist nasal | sie sind nasal | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | nasaler | nasale | nasales | nasale |
genitive | nasalen | nasaler | nasalen | nasaler | |
dative | nasalem | nasaler | nasalem | nasalen | |
accusative | nasalen | nasale | nasales | nasale | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der nasale | die nasale | das nasale | die nasalen |
genitive | des nasalen | der nasalen | des nasalen | der nasalen | |
dative | dem nasalen | der nasalen | dem nasalen | den nasalen | |
accusative | den nasalen | die nasale | das nasale | die nasalen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein nasaler | eine nasale | ein nasales | (keine) nasalen |
genitive | eines nasalen | einer nasalen | eines nasalen | (keiner) nasalen | |
dative | einem nasalen | einer nasalen | einem nasalen | (keinen) nasalen | |
accusative | einen nasalen | eine nasale | ein nasales | (keine) nasalen |
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
InterlinguaEdit
AdjectiveEdit
nasal (not comparable)
PiedmonteseEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
nasal
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Learned borrowing from Latin nāsālis.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
nasal m or f (plural nasais, not comparable)
Derived termsEdit
NounEdit
nasal f (plural nasais)
- nasal consonant
NounEdit
nasal m (plural nasais)
- nasal bone
Related termsEdit
Related terms
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Late Latin nāsālis, from Latin nāsus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
nasal (plural nasales)
Derived termsEdit
NounEdit
nasal f (plural nasales)
- nasal, nasal consonant
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “nasal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014