nasus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nāsus (“the nose; the nozzle or spout”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈneɪ.zəs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈneɪ.səs/
• Rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -eɪzəs, (General American) -eɪsəs

Noun

nasus (plural nasi)

1. (entomology) A horn-like elongated rostrum on the head of soldier termites of the subfamily Nasutiterminae, capable of producing and spraying noxious secretions for defense.
2. (entomology) A prolongation on the front of the head of a cranefly.

Derived terms

• nasute (adjective)

Related terms

• nasus externus

References

• “nasus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “nasus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

• Ansus, NUSAS, Susan, sauns, unass

Latin

Alternative forms

• nāsum (pre-Classical)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *nāssos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnaː.sus/, [ˈnäːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈna.sus/, [ˈnäːs̬us]

Noun

nāsus m (genitive nāsī); second declension

1. (anatomy) The nose.
   • c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmen 13 11-14:

     nam unguentum dabo, quod meae puellae,
     donarunt Veneres Cupidinesque,
     quod tu cum olfacies, deos rogabis,
     totum ut te faciant, Fabulle, nasum.

     for I will give you perfume, which to my girl
     Venuses and Cupids have given,
     which when you smell it, you will ask the gods,
     to make you, Fabullus, all nose

   Synonym: nāris

   1. The sense of smell.
2. (by extension) The projecting part of a vessel; the spout or nozzle.

Inflection

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	nāsus	nāsī
Genitive	nāsī	nāsōrum
Dative	nāsō	nāsīs
Accusative	nāsum	nāsōs
Ablative	nāsō	nāsīs
Vocative	nāse	nāsī

Derived terms

• nassiterna
• Nasō
• nāsālis
• Nāsīca
• nāsīca
• nāsūtus
• nāsūtē

 

Related terms

• nāris

Descendants

Descendants of nasus in other languages

• Catalan: nas
• Corsican: nasu
• Dalmatian: nuos
• → English: nasus
• Franco-Provençal: nâs
• French: nez, naseau
• Friulian: nâs
• Istro-Romanian: nås
• Italian: naso
• Megleno-Romanian: nas
• Occitan: nas
• Piedmontese: nas
• Romanian: nas
• Romansch: nas
• Sardinian: nasu
• Sicilian: nasu
• Spanish: naso
• Venetian: naxo
• Walloon: nez

References

• “nasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nasus 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)
• nasus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “nasus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nasus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “nāris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 400