FromProto-Italic*knuks, from a root*knu- also found inProto-Celtic*knūs (source ofIrishcnó) andProto-Germanic*hnuts (source ofEnglishnut). Based on the form of the nouns and the restriction of the root to Germanic, Celtic and Italic, it has been argued to be of non-Indo-European origin. De Vaan suggests that it is related tonūgae(“trifles”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /ˈnuks/,[ˈnʊks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /ˈnuks/,[ˈnuks]

nux f (genitivenucis);third declension

1. nut
2. nuttree

   Inter primas germinant ulmus, salix,nuces.

   Among the first to sprout are the elm, the willow, and thenut tree.

3. afruit with ahardshell orrind

   nux amara ―a bitteralmond

   castaneaenuces ―chestnuts

   nux pinea ―thefruit of thetithymalus

4. (figuratively) a thing of novalue
   • c. 206BCE,Plautus,Miles Gloriosus2.3.45:

     Nōn ego tuam empsim vītam vitiosānuce.

     I should not have bought your life with a viciousworthless thing.

5. (poetic)almond tree

Third-declension noun.

• (a thing of no value):res vel vilissima

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “nŭx”, inFranzösisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 7: N–Pas,page257

• “nux”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nux”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "nux", 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)
• nux inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “nux”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

• (Standard Zhuang)IPA^(key): /nu˦˨/
• Tone numbers: nu⁴
• Hyphenation: nux

nux (1957–1982 spellingnuч)

1. leprosy

• baenznux

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