nuxとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈnʊks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈnuks]

名詞

nux f (genitive nucis); third declension

1. nut
2. nut tree

   Inter primas germinant ulmus, salix, nuces.

   Among the first to sprout are the elm, the willow, and the nut tree.

3. a fruit with a hard shell or rind

   nux amara ― a bitter almond

   castaneae nuces ― chestnuts

   nux pinea ― the fruit of the tithymalus

4. (figuratively) a thing of no value
   • c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 2.3.45:

     Nōn ego tuam empsim vītam vitiosā nuce.

     I should not have bought your life with a vicious worthless thing.

5. (poetic) almond tree

語形変化

Third-declension noun.

同意語

• (a thing of no value): res vel vilissima

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参照

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “nŭx”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 7: N–Pas, page 257

Further reading

• “nux”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nux”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "nux", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “nux”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “nux”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers