nuc
See also: Appendix:Variations of "nuc"
English edit
Etymology edit
Shortening.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
nuc (plural nucs)
- (beekeeping) A nucleus colony; a small bee colony created from a larger colony.
- 1998, Sue Hubbell, A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them, page 110:
- I have to take brood from established hives to set up nucs, as I did the previous week […]
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Aromanian edit
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Etymology edit
From Latin nux, nucis.
Noun edit
nuc m (plural nuts)
- walnut tree
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin nux, nucis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *knew-. In Romanian, the names of nuts or fruits are usually feminine while the names of the corresponding trees or bushes are masculine; compare păr, prun, alun, măr, etc.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
nuc m (plural nuci)
- walnut (tree)
Declension edit
Declension of nuc
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References edit
- nuc in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Tapachultec edit
Noun edit
nuc
Usage notes edit
- This is the form given in Johnston's vocabulary; Lehmann says the form in the Sapper-Ricke wordlists is nog.
References edit
- Walter Lehmann, Über die Stellung und Verwandtschaft der Subtiaba-Sprache der pazifischen Küste Nicaraguas und über die Sprache von Tapachula in Südchiapas (1915), Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 47, presenting the wordlists of Karl Sapper, Ricke, and Amado Johnston.