nassa

See also: Nassa

Italian

Etymology

From Latin nassa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnas.sa/
• Rhymes: -assa
• Hyphenation: nàs‧sa

Noun

nassa f (plural nasse)

1. creel, trap for fish

Anagrams

• Sansa, sansa

Latin

Alternative forms

• naxa

Etymology

Probably from Old Latin nasta, from Proto-Indo-European *ned- (“to turn, twist, knot”). See also Proto-Germanic *natją (English net) and Irish nasc and snaidhm.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnas.sa/, [ˈnäs̠ːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnas.sa/, [ˈnäsːä]

Noun

nassa f (genitive nassae); first declension

1. a narrow-necked basket for catching fish, weel
2. (figuratively) a snare, net

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	nassa	nassae
Genitive	nassae	nassārum
Dative	nassae	nassīs
Accusative	nassam	nassās
Ablative	nassā	nassīs
Vocative	nassa	nassae

Descendants

• Catalan: nansa
• French: nasse
• Galician: nasa
• Italian: nassa
• Spanish: nasa

References

• “nassa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nassa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nassa 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)
• nassa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “nassa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Maltese

Root
n-s-s
2 terms

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian nassa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnas.sa/

Noun

nassa f (plural nassi or nases)

1. fish-trap
2. trap in general

   Synonym: nasba (especially a bird trap)

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀦𑀲𑁆𑀲 (Brahmi script)
• नस्स (Devanagari script)
• নস্স (Bengali script)
• නස‍්ස (Sinhalese script)
• နဿ or ၼသ်သ (Burmese script)
• นสฺส or นัสสะ (Thai script)
• ᨶᩔ (Tai Tham script)
• ນສ຺ສ or ນັສສະ (Lao script)
• នស្ស (Khmer script)
• 𑄚𑄥𑄴𑄥 (Chakma script)

Adjective

nassa

1. genitive/dative singular masculine/neuter of na (“that”)

Pronoun

nassa

1. genitive/dative singular of na (“him, it, that”)

Pronoun

nassa

1. genitive/dative singular of na (“it, that”)