nef
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Borrowed from French nef. Doublet of nave and nau.
NounEdit
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 2Edit
Short for numerically effective; introduced by Miles Reid.
AdjectiveEdit
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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FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French nef, from Old French nef, from Latin nāvis, nāvem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂us. Displaced by bateau and navire in the sense of "boat".
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nef f (plural nefs)
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DescendantsEdit
- → Breton: nev
Further readingEdit
- “nef” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
IcelandicEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse nef, from Proto-Germanic *nabją. Cognate with English neb.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nef n (genitive singular nefs, nominative plural nef)
DeclensionEdit
Derived termsEdit
- taka í nefið (to take snuff)
- fitja upp á nefið (to turn up one's nose)
- með nefið ofan í hvers manns koppi (nosy)
- stökkva upp á nef sér (to flare up, to get angry)
- neflaus
- hafa bein í nefinu
Mauritian CreoleEdit
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EtymologyEdit
NumeralEdit
nef
AdjectiveEdit
nef
Middle FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French nef, from Latin nāvis, nāvem.
NounEdit
DescendantsEdit
- French: nef (obsolete or poetic)
Old FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin nāvis, nāvem.
NounEdit
nef f (oblique plural nés, nominative singular nef, nominative plural nés)
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DescendantsEdit
Old NorseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *nabją.
NounEdit
nef n (genitive nefs, plural nef)
DeclensionEdit
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VolapükEdit
NounEdit
nef (nominative plural nefs)
DeclensionEdit
WelshEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nef f (plural nefoedd, not mutable)