FromProto-Indo-European*némos. Cognate withAncient Greekνέμος(némos),Sanskritनमस्(námas).
nemus n (genitivenemoris);third declension
- Agrove or aglade
8CE,
Ovid,
Fasti6.9–10:
- estnemus arboribus dēnsum, sēcrētus ab omnī
vōce locus, sī nōn obstreperētur aquīs- [There] is agrove, dense with trees, a place secluded from every sound, if it were not being disturbed by waters.
- apasture
- (poetic)wood
- (poetic) atree
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
- “nemus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nemus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "nemus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- nemus inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Lewis & Short,A Latin Dictionary
FromArabicنَامُوس(nāmūs).
nemus m (collective,singulativenemusa,pluralnwiemes,paucalnemusiet)
- mosquito,mosquitos
- fruitfly,fruitflies