nasal

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See also: Nasal and n-asal

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Medieval Latin nāsālis, from nāsus (“the nose”) +‎ -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix). Doublet of nasalis.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: nā'zəl IPA(key): /ˈneɪ.zəl/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪzəl

Adjective

nasal (comparative more nasal, superlative most nasal)

  1. (anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion.
    Synonyms: nosely, nosey
    • 2013 March, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 2, page 98:
      Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.
  2. (phonetics) Having a sound imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng.
    Hypernyms: sonorant, resonant
    nasal vowel
  3. (phonetics) Characterized by resonance in the nasal passage.
    nasal utterance
    • 2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 2:
      "Are you sure you're OK?" she said with a nasal Australian accent.
  4. (music) Sharp, penetrating.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

nasal (plural nasals)

  1. (medicine, archaic) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
  2. (phonetics) Ellipsis of nasal consonant.
    Hyponym: velar nasal
  3. (phonetics) Ellipsis of nasal vowel.
  4. (historical) The part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
    • 1909, Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor, page 78:
      The nasal continued in use until about 1140, when it was generally discarded, but isolated examples may be found in every succeeding century down to the seventeenth.
    • 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam Books, published 2011, page 463:
      Rorge had donned a black halfhelm with a broad iron nasal that made it hard to see that he did not have a nose.
  5. (anatomy) Ellipsis of nasal bone.
  6. (zootomy) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.

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Asturian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /naˈsal/,
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Hyphenation: na‧sal

Adjective

nasal (epicene, plural nasales)

  1. nasal

Catalan

Pronunciation

Adjective

nasal m or f (masculine and feminine plural nasals)

  1. nasal

Derived terms

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin nāsālis, from Latin nāsus (“nose”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

nasal (feminine nasale, masculine plural nasaux, feminine plural nasales)

  1. nasal
  2. (phonetics, phonology) nasal

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Further reading

Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /naˈsal/
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Hyphenation: na‧sal

Adjective

nasal m or f (plural nasais)

  1. nasal

Derived terms

Further reading

German

Etymology

From Latin nasalis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

nasal (strong nominative masculine singular nasaler, not comparable)

  1. nasal

Declension

Positive forms of nasal (uncomparable)
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative er ist nasal sie ist nasal es ist nasal sie sind nasal
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative nasaler nasale nasales nasale
genitive nasalen nasaler nasalen nasaler
dative nasalem nasaler nasalem nasalen
accusative nasalen nasale nasales nasale
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der nasale die nasale das nasale die nasalen
genitive des nasalen der nasalen des nasalen der nasalen
dative dem nasalen der nasalen dem nasalen den nasalen
accusative den nasalen die nasale das nasale die nasalen
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein nasaler eine nasale ein nasales (keine) nasalen
genitive eines nasalen einer nasalen eines nasalen (keiner) nasalen
dative einem nasalen einer nasalen einem nasalen (keinen) nasalen
accusative einen nasalen eine nasale ein nasales (keine) nasalen

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “nasal” in Duden online
  • “nasal” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Interlingua

Adjective

nasal (not comparable)

  1. nasal

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

Adjective

nasal

  1. nasal

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin nāsālis.

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: na‧sal

Adjective

nasal m or f (plural nasais, not comparable)

  1. nasal

Derived terms

Noun

nasal f (plural nasais)

  1. nasal consonant

Noun

nasal m (plural nasais)

  1. nasal bone

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin nāsālis, from Latin nāsus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /naˈsal/
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: na‧sal

Adjective

nasal m or f (masculine and feminine plural nasales)

  1. nasal

Derived terms

Noun

nasal f (plural nasales)

  1. nasal, nasal consonant

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Further reading

Swedish

Adjective

nasal (comparative nasalare, superlative nasalast)

  1. (anatomy) nasal
  2. (phonetics) nasal
  3. nasal (having a nasal tone)
    en nasal röst
    a nasal voice

Declension

Inflection of nasal
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular nasal nasalare nasalast
Neuter singular nasalt nasalare nasalast
Plural nasala nasalare nasalast
Masculine plural3 nasale nasalare nasalast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 nasale nasalare nasalaste
All nasala nasalare nasalaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

Noun

nasal c

  1. a nasal (nasal consonant, nasal vowel)

Declension

Declension of nasal 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative nasal nasalen nasaler nasalerna
Genitive nasals nasalens nasalers nasalernas

References

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