FromLatinnassa.
nassa f (pluralnasse)
- creel,trap forfish
Probably fromOld Latinnasta, fromProto-Indo-European*ned-(“to turn, twist, knot”). See alsoProto-Germanic*natją (Englishnet) andIrishnasc andsnaidhm.
nassa f (genitivenassae);first declension
- a narrow-neckedbasket for catching fish,weel
- (figuratively) asnare,net
First-declension noun.
- “nassa”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nassa”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891),An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "nassa", 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)
- “nassa”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “nassa”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Borrowed fromItaliannassa.
nassa f (pluralnassiornases)
- fish-trap
- trap in general
- Synonym:nasba(especially a bird trap)
nassa
- genitive/dativesingularmasculine/neuter ofna(“that”)
nassa
- genitive/dativesingular ofna(“him, it, that”)
nassa
- genitive/dativesingular ofna(“it, that”)
