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English
Etymology
Shortening.
Pronunciation
Noun
nuc (plural nucs)
- (beekeeping) A nucleus colony; a small bee colony created from a larger colony.
1998, Sue Hubbell, A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them, page 110:I have to take brood from established hives to set up nucs, as I did the previous week […]
Anagrams
Aromanian
Etymology
From Latin nux, nucis.
Noun
nuc m (plural nuts)
- walnut tree
Romanian
Etymology
Inherited from Latin nux, nucis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *knew-. In Romanian, the names of nuts or fruits are usually feminine while the names of the corresponding trees or bushes are masculine; compare păr, prun, alun, măr, etc.
Pronunciation
Noun
nuc m (plural nuci)
- walnut (tree)
Declension
Declension of nuc
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indefinite articulation
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indefinite articulation
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definite articulation
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| nominative/accusative
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(un) nuc
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nucul
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(niște) nuci
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nucii
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| genitive/dative
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(unui) nuc
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nucului
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(unor) nuci
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nucilor
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| vocative
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nucule
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nucilor
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Derived terms
References
Tapachultec
Noun
nuc
- water
Usage notes
- This is the form given in Johnston's vocabulary; Lehmann says the form in the Sapper-Ricke wordlists is nog.
References
- Walter Lehmann, Über die Stellung und Verwandtschaft der Subtiaba-Sprache der pazifischen Küste Nicaraguas und über die Sprache von Tapachula in Südchiapas (1915), Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 47, presenting the wordlists of Karl Sapper, Ricke, and Amado Johnston.