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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nāsus (the nose; the nozzle or spout).

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Noun

nasus (plural nasi)

  1. (entomology) A horn-like elongated rostrum on the head of soldier termites of the subfamily Nasutiterminae, capable of producing and spraying noxious secretions for defense.
  2. (entomology) A prolongation on the front of the head of a cranefly.

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Etymology

From Proto-Italic *nāssos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s-.

Pronunciation

Noun

nāsus m (genitive nāsī); second declension

  1. (anatomy) The nose.
    • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmen 13 11-14:
      nam unguentum dabo, quod meae puellae,
      donarunt Veneres Cupidinesque,
      quod tu cum olfacies, deos rogabis,
      totum ut te faciant, Fabulle, nasum.
      for I will give you perfume, which to my girl
      Venuses and Cupids have given,
      which when you smell it, you will ask the gods,
      to make you, Fabullus, all nose
    Synonym: nāris
    1. The sense of smell.
  2. (by extension) The projecting part of a vessel; the spout or nozzle.

Inflection

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative nāsus nāsī
Genitive nāsī nāsōrum
Dative nāsō nāsīs
Accusative nāsum nāsōs
Ablative nāsō nāsīs
Vocative nāse nāsī

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References

  • nasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • nasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • nasus 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)
  • nasus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • nasus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • nasus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “nāris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 400