FromProto-Finnic*nëro(“skill, ability, wit”). CompareKareliannero andLudianńero.
nero
- genius(someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill)
- negro(part archaic, part borrowed from Spanish)
FromLatinnigrum.
nero (femininenera,masculine pluralneri,feminine pluralnere,superlativenerissimo,diminutiveneréttoornerettìnoornerìnoor(rare)nerélloor(rare)nerellìno)
- black(color/colour)
nero m (pluralneri)
- black(color/colour)
- fascist, the extremeright
- ink
- a person ofblack skin
- (heraldry)sable
nero
- Rōmaji transcription ofねろ
nero
- genius
- talent
nero
- talent
- genius
- IPA(key): /ˈnɛ.rɔ/
- Rhymes:-ɛrɔ
- Syllabification:ne‧ro
nero f
- vocativesingular ofnera
FromProto-Italic*nēr, itself fromProto-Indo-European*h₂nḗr.
nero
- The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
- (as a noun)virtue,strength
- (as a proper noun)Nero
- (as an adjective)strong,valiant
The term is attested indirectly in various ancient glosses:
Suetonius,
De Vita Caesarum Tib.1:
- Inter cognomina autem etNeronis assumpsit, quod significatur lingua Sabina fortis ac strenuus.
- They added the name of "Nero" to their cognomina, which in the Sabine language means "strong" and "valiant"
Aulus Gellius,
Attic Nights 23:
- Id autem, sive "Nerio" sive "Nerienes" est, Sabinum verbum est, eoque significatur virtus et fortitudo.
- Whether it be "Nerio" or "Nerienes," it is a Sabine word meaning "virtue" and "strength."
John the Lydian,
De Magistratibus reipublicae Romanae 1.26:
- Νέρων ὁ ἰσχυρὸς τῇ Σαβίνων φωνῇ
- (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
It is possible that Gellius and John the Lydian sourced their information from Suetonius. It is also possible that the claims of the supposed Sabine origins of the Claudii family are fabricated, and thus the supposed Sabine origins of the term may also be fictitious.
- Annie Cecilia Burman (2018 March 24)De Lingua Sabina: A Reappraisal of the Sabine Glosses[2],→DOI, pages126-127
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008)Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[3], Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN
San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo
[edit]Borrowed fromSpanishenero, fromLatinIānuārius.
nero
- January
- Stewart, Cloyd, Stewart, Ruth D., colaboradores amuzgos (2000)Diccionario amuzgo de San Pedro Amuzgos, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”;44)[4] (in Spanish), Coyoacán, D.F.:Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C.,→ISBN
FromProto-Finnic*nëro. Cognates includeFinnishnero.
nero
- genius
- Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “гений”, inUz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary][5], Petrozavodsk: Periodika