IPA(key): [ˈnuː.ɡae̯] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈnuː.d͡ʒe] <span class="searchmatch">nūgae</span> f pl (genitive nūgārum); first declension jokes, jests Nōlī nūgās prōferre...
nūgās accusative of <span class="searchmatch">nūgae</span> “nugas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press nugas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934)...
From <span class="searchmatch">nugae</span> (“nonsense”) + palam (“publicly”) + loqui (“to speak”). Coined by Titus Maccius Plautus (Plaut. Pers. line 703). The term is a modern rendering...
third declension trifling playfulness, drollery Third-declension noun. <span class="searchmatch">nūgae</span> English: nugacity “nugacitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)...
<span class="searchmatch">nūgae</span> (“jokes”) + -or (denominative verb suffix) (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈnuː.ɡɔr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈnuː.ɡor] nūgor...
From Latin <span class="searchmatch">nugae</span> (“trifles”) + -fy + -ing. nugifying (comparative more nugifying, superlative most nugifying) Rendering trifling or futile; making silly...
trifling worthless, useless First/second-declension adjective. nūgācitās <span class="searchmatch">nūgae</span> nūgālis nūgāmenta nūgātor nūgātrix nūgax English: nugatory “nugatorius”...
Latin nūgācitās (“trifling”), from nūgāx, -itās. Further from nūgor, from <span class="searchmatch">nūgae</span>. nugacity futility; trifling talk or behaviour; drollery 1901, William Lee...
(Estonian Language Foundation), 2012 nūga f (genitive <span class="searchmatch">nūgae</span>); first declension (New Latin) singular of <span class="searchmatch">nūgae</span> (“jests, trifles”) 1588, Giordano Bruno, Camoeracensis...