negus

• IPA^(key): /ˈniːɡəs/

Named from Colonel Francis Negus (died 1732), its creator.

negus (countable and uncountable, plural neguses)

1. A drink of wine, lemon, sugar, nutmeg and hot water.
   • 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, page 177 →ISBN

     And when he got home he had a glass of hot negus in his wife's sitting-room, and read the last number of the “Little Dorrit” of the day with great inward satisfaction.

   • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter VII, Section vi

     Esther began […] to cry. But when the fire had been lit specially to warm her chilled limbs and Adela had plied her with hot negus she began to feel rather a heroine.

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 258:

     ‘I could sure use a cup of negus and maybe some hot soup,’ he sniffs.

Borrowed from Amharic ንጉሥ (nəguś, “king”).

negus (plural neguses)

1. (historical) A ruler of Ethiopia or of a province of Ethiopia; specifically, the supreme ruler of Ethiopia before 1974.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 240:

     It was a Syrian merchant, Frumentius, who is credited with converting Ezana, the Negus (king or emperor) of the powerful northern Ethiopian state of Aksum.

• genus

Borrowed from Amharic ንጉሥ (nəguś, “king”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛ.ɡus/, [ˈn̺ɛːɡus̪]
• Stress: nègus
• Hyphenation: ne‧gus

negus m (invariable)

1. (historical) Title of the highest grade in the hierarchy of the Ethiopian Empire; Negus

• negussita

• ras

negus m (plural neguses)

1. (historical) Negus (supreme Ethiopian ruler)