FromLatinnīsus(“pressure, exertion”).

nisus (usuallyuncountable,pluralnisuses)

1. Amental orphysicaleffort to attain a specificgoal; astriving.
   • 1992, J.G. Hart,The Person and the Common Life: Studies in a Husserlian Social Ethics,page363:

     The godly personality of a higher order, as thetelos of thenisus of moral categoriality, is thesensus plenior of thenisus to a universal communalization of perspectives.

   • 2006, Errol E. Harris,Reflections on the Problem of Consciousness,page158:

     The immanentnisus to completion, therefore, drives the complex to the explication of its internal relations so that they become recognizable as such.

2. Theperiodicprocreativedesire manifested in thespring bybirds, etc.
3. Thecontraction of thediaphragm andabdominalmuscles toevacuatefaeces orurine.
   • 1833, James O' Beirne,New Views on the Process of Defecation, and Their Application to the Pathology and Treatment of Diseases of the Stomach, Bowels, and Other Organs, quoted in 1833, John Johnson (editor),The Medico-Chirurgical Review, New Series: Volume 19 (Volume 23 of the Analytical Series),page 7,

     The evacuation of the rectum and bladder being completed, immediately thenisus ceases, the rectum and the sphincters return to their former state of contraction, the diaphragm reascends, carrying with it and restoring to their proper situations the liver, the stomach, the spleen, the small intestines, the cæcum, and the ascending, transverse and descending portions of the colon.

• Sunis,sinus

nisus

1. inessivesingular ofnisu

• nīxus

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /ˈniː.sus/,[ˈniːs̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /ˈni.sus/,[ˈniːs̬us]

Fromnītor +‎-tus.

nīsus m (genitivenīsūs);fourth declension

1. pressure(downward push)
2. exertion

Fourth-declension noun.

Perfect participle ofnītor.

nīsus (femininenīsa,neuternīsum);first/second-declension participle

1. Alternative form ofnīxus

FromAncient GreekΝῖσος(Nîsos).

nīsus m (genitivenīsī);second declension

1. sea-eagle
2. sparrowhawk

Second-declension noun.

• “nisus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "nisus", 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)
• nisus inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) if I am not mistaken:nisi fallor
    
  • (ambiguous) if I am not mistaken:nisi (animus) me fallit
    
  • (ambiguous) unless I'm greatly mistaken:nisi omnia me fallunt
    
  • (ambiguous) to except the fact that..:praeterquam quod ornisi quod
    
• “nisus”, inThe Perseus Project (1999)Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[2]
• “nisus”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nisus”, inWilliam Smith, editor (1848),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

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