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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *némos. Cognate with Ancient Greek νέμος (némos), Sanskrit नमस् (námas).
Pronunciation
Noun
nemus n (genitive nemoris); third declension
- A grove or a glade
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 6.9–10:
- est nemus arboribus dēnsum, sēcrētus ab omnī
vōce locus, sī nōn obstreperētur aquīs- is a grove, dense with trees, a place secluded from every sound, if it were not being disturbed by waters.
- a pasture
- (poetic) wood
- (poetic) a tree
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Derived terms
References
- “nemus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nemus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nemus 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)
- nemus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary
Anagrams
Maltese
Etymology
From Arabic نَامُوس (nāmūs).
Pronunciation
Noun
nemus m (collective, singulative nemusa, plural nwiemes, paucal nemusiet)
- mosquito, mosquitos
- fruitfly, fruitflies
Derived terms