nux – Latin noun declension

Noun: nux
Hyphenation:

Gender: Feminine Declension: Third

Nominative

Singular	nux
Plural	nucēs

Genitive

Singular	nucis
Plural	nucum

Dative

Singular	nucī
Plural	nucibus

Accusative

Singular	nucem
Plural	nucēs

Ablative

Singular	nuce
Plural	nucibus

Vocative

Singular	nux
Plural	nucēs

Sample Sentences

Inter primas germinant ulmus, salix, nuces. (Among the first to sprout are the elm, the willow, and the nut tree.)
nux amara (a bitter almond)
castaneae nuces (chestnuts)
nux pinea (the fruit of the tithymalus)
Nōn ego tuam empsim vītam vitiosā nuce. (I should not have bought your life with a vicious worthless thing.) [c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 2.3.45]

Nouns inflected like nux

sandȳx, sandīx, scolax, smīlax, prōcrāstinātrīx, pōtrīx, auxiliātrīx, senātrīx, adsistrīx, adiūtrīx, ōrātrīx, vēnātrīx, adulterātrīx, perpetrātrīx, sēductrīx, iuvenix, meretrīx, zmīlax, balneātrīx, contemplātrīx, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *knuks, from a root *knu- also found in Proto-Celtic *knūs (source of Irish cnó) and Proto-Germanic *hnuts (source of English nut). 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 to nūgae (“trifles”). See: Irish Nouns 'cnó', English Nouns 'nut'.

Verbs referencing "nux"

English Nouns nut, Icelandic Nouns hnot, Icelandic Nouns hneta, Italian Nouns noce, English Nouns nougat, French Nouns noix, Romanian Nouns nuc, Galician Nouns noz, Galician Nouns nogueira, Portuguese Nouns nogueira, Asturian Nouns nogal, Spanish Nouns nogal, Romanian Nouns nucă, Asturian Nouns nuez, Spanish Nouns nuez, Italian Nouns nocciola, English Nouns nux vomica, Catalan Nouns noguera, Spanish Nouns noguera, Irish Nouns cnó, English Nouns nucin, Faroese Nouns nugga, Spanish Nouns nuégado, Dutch Nouns okkernoot.