nodus

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nōdus (“a knot”). Doublet of knot, knout, and node.

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  • Rhymes: -əʊdəs

Noun

nodus (plural nodi)

  1. A difficulty.
  2. (zoology) In the Odonata, a prominent crossvein near the centre of the leading edge of a wing.

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Latin

Etymology

Uncertain. Per De Vaan, potentially a loanword; it is possibly related to nassa (“fish-trap made of wickerwork”) and necto (“I bind”).

One theory derives it from Proto-Indo-European *gned-, *gnod- (“to bind”) and makes it cognate to Proto-Germanic *knuttô (“knot”) (whence Modern English knot).

Another theory derives it from Proto-Indo-European *ned- (“to turn, twist, knot”), whence English net and possibly nettle, Avestan 𐬥𐬀𐬯𐬐𐬀- (naska-, “bundle”), Old Irish nascim (“to bind”).

Pronunciation

Noun

nōdus m (genitive nōdī); second declension

  1. a knot (in rope)
  2. a knot (in wood)
  3. a knob
  4. a bond
  5. an obligation
  6. a sticking point
  7. (in the plural) a knotted fishing net

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative nōdus nōdī
Genitive nōdī nōdōrum
Dative nōdō nōdīs
Accusative nōdum nōdōs
Ablative nōdō nōdīs
Vocative nōde nōdī

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “nōdus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 412

Further reading

  • “nodus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “nodus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • nodus 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)
  • nodus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “nodus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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