nutus

Latin

Etymology

From *nuō.

Pronunciation

Noun

nūtus m (genitive nūtūs); fourth declension

  1. a nod, nodding
  2. a downward tendency or motion; the pull of gravity
  3. a command, will, pleasure (the nod as an expression of will and authority: compare nūmen)
    ad nūtum praestō esse ― to be at one's complete disposal

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative nūtus nūtūs
Genitive nūtūs nūtuum
Dative nūtuī nūtibus
Accusative nūtum nūtūs
Ablative nūtū nūtibus
Vocative nūtus nūtūs

Descendants
  • → Portuguese: nuto
  • → Spanish: nuto

References
  • “nutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “nutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • nutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • gravity: nutus et pondus or simply nutus (ῥοπή)
    • to take one's directions from another; to obey him in everything: se convertere, converti ad alicuius nutum
    • to be at the beck and call of another; to be his creature: totum se fingere et accommodare ad alicuius arbitrium et nutum
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