nexum

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

nexum

1. A contract in early Ancient Rome in which the debtor pledged his own person as collateral should he default on his loan (thus risking becoming a slave to the creditor).

Related terms

• nexus

Latin

Participle

nexum

1. inflection of nexus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

References

• “nexum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nexum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nexum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “nexum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nexum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin