nutus

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Latin

Etymology

From *nuō +‎ -tus.

Pronunciation

Noun

nūtus m (genitive nūtūs); fourth declension

  1. a nod, nodding
  2. a downward tendency or motion; the pull of gravity
  3. a command, will, pleasure (the nod as an expression of will and authority: compare nūmen)
    ad nūtum praestō esseto be at one's complete disposal
    • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.31:
      Ariovistum autem superbe et crudeliter imperare, obsides nobilissimi cuiusque liberos poscere et in eos omnia exempla cruciatusque edere, si qua res non ad nutum aut ad voluntatem eius facta sit.
      Moreover, Ariovistus, to lord it haughtily and cruelly, to demand as hostages the children of all the principal nobles, and wreak on them every kind of cruelty, if every thing was not done at his nod or pleasure.

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative nūtus nūtūs
genitive nūtūs nūtuum
dative nūtuī nūtibus
accusative nūtum nūtūs
ablative nūtū nūtibus
vocative nūtus nūtūs

Descendants

  • Portuguese: nuto
  • Spanish: nuto

References

  • nutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • nutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • nutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • gravity: nutus et pondus or simply nutus (ῥοπή)
    • to take one's directions from another; to obey him in everything: se convertere, converti ad alicuius nutum
    • to be at the beck and call of another; to be his creature: totum se fingere et accommodare ad alicuius arbitrium et nutum