nux

From Proto-Italic *knuks, from Proto-Indo-European *knew-; compare Irish cnó, English nut.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /nuks/, [nʊks̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /nuks/, [nuks]

nux f (genitive nucis); third declension

1. a nut
2. a nut tree

   Inter primas germinant ulmus, salix, nuces.

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

3. a fruit with a hard shell or rind

   Nux amara.

   A bitter almond.

   Castaneae nuces.

   Chestnuts.

   Nux pinea.

   The fruit of the tithymalus.

4. (figuratively) a thing of no value

   Non ego tuam empsim vitam vitiosā nuce.

   • I should not have bought your life with a vicious worthless thing. (Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, act 2, scene 3, line 45)
5. (poetic) an almond tree

Third-declension noun.

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

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “nŭx”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 7: N–Pas, page 257

• “nux”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nux”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nux 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)
• nux in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “nux”, in Harry 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 spelling nuч)

1. leprosy

• baenznux