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nasal

See also: Nasal and n-asal

English

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From Middle English, from Medieval Latin nāsālis, from nāsus (“the nose”) +‎ -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of nasalis.

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nasal (comparative more nasal, superlative most nasal)

  1. (anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion.
    Synonyms: nosely, nosey
    • 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.
  2. (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.
    Hypernyms: sonorant, resonant
    nasal vowel
  3. (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.
  4. (music) Sharp, penetrating.

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nasal (plural nasals)

  1. (medicine, archaic) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
  2. (phonetics) Ellipsis of nasal consonant.
    Hyponym: velar nasal
  3. (phonetics) Ellipsis of nasal vowel.
  4. (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.
  5. (anatomy) Ellipsis of nasal bone.
  6. (zootomy) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.

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Asturian

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  • IPA(key): /naˈsal/ [naˈsal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: na‧sal

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nasal (epicene, plural nasales)

  1. nasal

Catalan

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nasal m or f (masculine and feminine plural nasals)

  1. nasal

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin nāsālis, from Latin nāsus (“nose”).

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nasal (feminine nasale, masculine plural nasaux, feminine plural nasales)

  1. nasal
  2. (phonetics, phonology) nasal

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Galician

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  • IPA(key): /naˈsal/ [naˈs̺ɑɫ]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Hyphenation: na‧sal

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nasal m or f (plural nasais)

  1. nasal

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German

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Etymology

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From Latin nasalis.

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nasal (strong nominative masculine singular nasaler, not comparable)

  1. nasal

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Positive forms of nasal (uncomparable)
number & gender singular plural
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

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  • “nasal” in Duden online
  • “nasal” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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nasal (not comparable)

  1. nasal

Piedmontese

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nasal

  1. nasal

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin nāsālis.

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  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: na‧sal

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nasal m or f (plural nasais, not comparable)

  1. nasal

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nasal f (plural nasais)

  1. nasal consonant

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nasal m (plural nasais)

  1. nasal bone
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Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Late Latin nāsālis, from Latin nāsus.

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  • IPA(key): /naˈsal/ [naˈsal]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: na‧sal

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nasal m or f (masculine and feminine plural nasales)

  1. nasal

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nasal f (plural nasales)

  1. nasal, nasal consonant
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nasal (comparative nasalare, superlative nasalast)

  1. (anatomy) nasal
  2. (phonetics) nasal
  3. nasal (having a nasal tone)
    en nasal röst
    a nasal voice

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Inflection of nasal
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular nasal nasalare nasalast
neuter singular nasalt nasalare nasalast
plural nasala nasalare nasalast
masculine plural2 nasale nasalare nasalast
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 nasale nasalare nasalaste
all nasala nasalare nasalaste

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

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nasal c

  1. a nasal (nasal consonant, nasal vowel)

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Declension of nasal
nominative genitive
singular indefinite nasal nasals
definite nasalen nasalens
plural indefinite nasaler nasalers
definite nasalerna nasalernas

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