# negus
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈniːɡəs/

### Etymology 1

Named from Colonel Francis Negus (died 1732), its creator.

#### Noun

negus (countable and uncountable, plural neguses)
* A drink made of wine, often port, mixed with hot water, oranges or lemons, spices and sugar.
** 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers. […], copyright edition, volume II, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1859, →OCLC, page 219:And when he got home he had a glass of hot negus in his wife's sitting-room, and read the last number of the “Little Dorrit” of the day with great inward satisfaction.
** 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, chapter VII, in A House is Built, section VI:Esther began […] to cry. But when the fire had been lit specially to warm her chilled limbs and Adela had plied her with hot negus she began to feel rather a heroine.
** 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 258:‘I could sure use a cup of negus and maybe some hot soup,’ he sniffs.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

1590s, borrowed from Amharic ንጉሥ (nəguś, “king, ruler”), itself a loan from Ge'ez ንጉሥ (nəguś, “king, ruler”), from the verb ነግሠ (nägśä, “rule”).

#### Noun

negus (plural neguses)
* (historical) A ruler of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), or of a province of Ethiopia; specifically, the king of Ethiopia before 1974.
** 1614 Samuel Purchas, Purchas his pilgrimes. part 2 In fiue bookes, Chap. V. The Voyage of Sir FRANCIS ALVAREZ, a Portugall Priest, made vnto the Court of PRETE IANNI, the great Christian Emperour of Ethiopia, §. XVII. (p. 1102)
    Sir, the Negus of Ethiopia is here in person; and this is the day of our death, doe what you can to saue your selfe, for my part I meane here to die
** 1739, John Campbell, The Travels and Adventures of Edward Brown, page 292:In the Abyssinian Language a King is call'd Negus. Their Monarch they stile Negus Negasta, which is as much as to say, King of Kings.
** 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 240:It was a Syrian merchant, Frumentius, who is credited with converting Ezana, the Negus (king or emperor) of the powerful northern Ethiopian state of Aksum.

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* genus

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Amharic ንጉሥ (nəguś, “king”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnɛ.ɡus/
* Rhymes: -ɛɡus
* Hyphenation: nè‧gus

### Noun

negus m (invariable)
* (historical) title of the highest grade in the hierarchy of the Ethiopian Empire; Negus

#### Derived terms

* negussita

### See also

* ras

### Anagrams

* sugne

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Amharic ንጉሥ (nəguś, “king”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnɛ.ɡus/
* Rhymes: -ɛɡus
* Syllabification: ne‧gus

### Noun

negus m pers
* (historical) negus (supreme Ethiopian ruler)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* negus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Amharic ንጉሥ (nəguś).

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈnɛ.ɡus/

### Noun

negus m (plural neguses)
* (historical) Negus (supreme Ethiopian ruler)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French negous.

### Noun

negus m (plural neguși)
* negus (ruler of Abyssinia)

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Noun

negus m (plural neguses)
* (historical) Negus (supreme Ethiopian ruler)

### Further reading

* “negus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10