nasus

Borrowed from Latin nasus (“spout, nozzle”)

nasus

1. (zoology) A horn-like snout on certain termites, capable of producing noxious secretions.

• nasute

• Ansus, NUSAS, Susan, sauns, unass

• nāsum (pre-Classical)

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s-.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnaː.sus/, [ˈnaː.sʊs]

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nāsus m (genitive nāsī); second declension

1. (anatomy) nose
2. sense of smell
3. (by extension) spout, nozzle

Second declension.

• (nose): nāris

• nāsālis
• nāsūtē
• nāsūtus

• nāris

• 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, 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