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From Proto-Italic *knuks, from a root *knu- also found in Proto-Celtic *knūs (source of Irish cnó) and Proto-Germanic *hnuts (source of English nut). Based on the form of the nouns and the restriction of the root to Germanic, Celtic and Italic, it has been argued to be of non-Indo-European origin. De Vaan suggests that it is related to nūgae (“trifles”).[1]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /nuks/, [nʊks̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /nuks/, [nuks]
nux f (genitive nucis); third declension
- nut
- nut tree
Inter primas germinant ulmus, salix, nuces.
- Among the first to sprout are the elm, the willow, and the nut tree.
- a fruit with a hard shell or rind
- nux amara ― a bitter almond
- castaneae nuces ― chestnuts
- nux pinea ― the fruit of the tithymalus
- (figuratively) a thing of no value
- (poetic) almond tree
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | nux | nucēs |
Genitive | nucis | nucum |
Dative | nucī | nucibus |
Accusative | nucem | nucēs |
Ablative | nuce | nucibus |
Vocative | nux | nucēs |
- (a thing of no value): res vel vilissima
- in nuce (“in a nutshell”)
- nucāmenta
- nucēs relinquō (“I give up childish sports”)
- nucētum
- nuceus
- nucicla
- nucifer
- nucifrangibulum
- nucinus
- nucipersicum
- nuciprūnum
- nucleus
- nucunculus
- nux cassa (“nutshell”)
- nux indica
- nux muscata
- nux vomica
- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Vulgar Latin:
- *nocem
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- *nocem
- Borrowings:
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “nŭx”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 7: N–Pas, page 257
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “nux”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 420
- “nux”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nux”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nux 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)
- nux in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “nux”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /nu˦˨/
- Tone numbers: nu4
- Hyphenation: nux
nux (1957–1982 spelling nuч)