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Latin
Etymology
Unknown. Perhaps a borrowing from another Italic language, cognate with nux (“nut”) and naucum (“nutshell, trifle”).
Compare typologically Russian семе́чки (seméčki), ещё цвето́чки (ješčó cvetóčki).
Pronunciation
Noun
nūgae f pl (genitive nūgārum); first declension
- jokes, jests
Nōlī nūgās prōferre!- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- trifles
c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE,
Catullus,
Carmina 1.3–4:
- Corneli, tibi: namque tu solebas / meas esse aliquid putare nugas
- To you, Cornelius: since you used to regard my trifles to be something
- worthless people
Usage notes
- The singular nūga is not used classically, but is attested in New Latin.
Declension
First-declension noun, plural only.
Derived terms
References
- “nugae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nugae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nugae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN