nasus

Borrowed from Latin nāsus (“the nose; the nozzle or spout”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈneɪ.zəs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈneɪ.səs/

nasus (plural nasi)

1. (entomology) A horn-like elongated rostrum on the head of soldier termites of the subfamily Nasutiterminae, capable of producing and spraying noxious secretions for defense.
2. (entomology) A prolongation on the front of the head of a cranefly.

• nasute (adjective)

• “nasus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “nasus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

• Ansus, NUSAS, Susan, sauns, unass

• nāsum (ante-classical)

From Proto-Italic *nāssos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s-.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnaː.sus/, [ˈnäːs̠ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈna.sus/, [ˈnäːs̬us]

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nāsus m (genitive nāsī); second declension

1. (anatomy) The nose.

   Synonym: nāris

   1. The sense of smell.
2. (by extension) The projecting part of a vessel; the spout or nozzle.

Second-declension noun.

• nāsālis
• Nasō
• nāsūtē
• nāsūtus
• nassiterna

• nāris

• “nasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nasus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nasus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• nasus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “nasus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nasus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly