nasute

English

Etymology

Latin nasutus.

Adjective

nasute (comparative more nasute, superlative most nasute)

  1. Having a long snout.
  2. (obsolete) Having a sensitive sense of smell.
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  3. (obsolete) pedantic; captious

Noun

nasute (plural nasutes)

  1. A kind of termite with a nasus.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for nasute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From nāsūtus (“large-nosed, satirical”).

Pronunciation

Adverb

nāsūtē (comparative nāsūtius, superlative nāsūtissimē)

  1. satirically, scornfully, wittily, sarcastically

References
  • nasute in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • nasute in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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