Shortening.
nuc (pluralnucs)
- (beekeeping) Anucleuscolony; a small bee colony created from a larger colony.
1998, Sue Hubbell,A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them, page110:I have to take brood from established hives to set upnucs, as I did the previous week[…]
FromLatinnux, nucis.
nuc m (pluralnuts)
- walnut tree
Inherited fromLatinnux,nucis, ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*knew-. In Romanian, the names of nuts or fruits are usually feminine while the names of the corresponding trees or bushes are masculine; comparepăr,prun,alun,măr, etc.
nuc m (pluralnuci)
- walnut (tree)
nuc
- water
- This is the form given in Johnston's vocabulary; Lehmann says the form in the Sapper-Ricke wordlists isnog.
- Walter Lehmann,Über die Stellung und Verwandtschaft der Subtiaba-Sprache der pazifischen Küste Nicaraguas und über die Sprache von Tapachula in Südchiapas (1915),Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 47, presenting the wordlists of Karl Sapper, Ricke, and Amado Johnston.
