nacca

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Latin

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Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly a loan from hypothetical Ancient Greek *νάκτης, *νάκται (*náktēs, *náktai), an agent noun from νάσσω (nássō, to squeeze, press together).[1] Compare νάκος (nákos, fleece).[2][3] Some assume instead that it originates from Etruscan.[4][5]

Noun

nacca m (genitive naccae); first declension

  1. fuller
    Synonym: fullō

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

  1. ^ nacca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  2. ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “nacca”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 428
  3. ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 168
  4. ^ Baldi, Philip (2002) The Foundations of Latin, page 166
  5. ^ Ostler, Nicholas (2007) Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin, page 325, page 37

Further reading

  • nacca in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • nacca”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Pali

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Noun

nacca n

  1. dancing (for an audience)
  2. a play

Declension

References

Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “nacca”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead