# nude
## English
### Etymology

Entered English 1493 as a legal term, meaning "unsupported, not formally attested," from Middle English nud, from Latin nūdus (“naked, bare”).

### Pronunciation

* enPR: n(y)o͞od, IPA: /n(j)uːd/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːd

### Adjective

nude (comparative nuder, superlative nudest)
* Without clothing or other covering of the skin; without clothing on the genitals or female nipples.
    Why do you act so prudish whenever you see nude people?
** 2019 December 19, Elaine McCahill, “I said no to 'Game of Thrones' nude scene, says 'Charlie' actress Sinead Watters”, Irish Independent: Charlie's breakout star Sinead Watters has revealed that she said no to a nude role in Game of Thrones.
* (of clothing, makeup, etc) Of a color (such as beige or tan) that evokes bare flesh.
** 2007, Brenda Janowitz, Scot On The Rocks, →ISBN, page 113:Vanessa always wore the same color on both her hands and feet—Hitchcock Blonde—a barely-there nude color with a dash of pink that was only two shades away from clear topcoat. It was the sort of thing you would imagine Grace Kelly in […]
** 2010, Raquel Welch, Raquel: Beyond the Cleavage, →ISBN, page 143:It gave me a lovely, natural, but juicy color. To correct the shape of my mouth, I lined my lips with a nude color like MAC's Spice mixed with Mochaberry Automatic Lip Liner, blending the liner very carefully to make sure there was no hard edge.
** 2012, Dilvin Yasa, Things My Daughter Needs to Know, →ISBN:Do not, under any circumstances (even if grunge is back in), wear a white or black bra under light-coloured clothing – only a nude bra will do.
** 2016 June 2, “Company releases nude chest binder line for different skin tones”, in Washington Blade‎:
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:nude.
* (law, archaic) Not valid; void.
** 1825, Sir William Hay Macnaghten, Principles and Precedents of Moohummudan Law:A void sale is that which can never take effect; in which the articles opposed to each other, or one of them, not bearing any legal value the contract is nude.

#### Synonyms

* (naked): See Thesaurus:nude
* (skin-colored): flesh-colored, skin-colored, carnation

#### Derived terms

* nelfie
* never-nude
* non-nude
* nude beach
* nude number
* nude pact
* nude run
* nudie
* Rowett nude rat
* semi-nude

#### Related terms

* denude
* nudism
* nudist
* nudity

#### Translations

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### Noun

nude (plural nudes)
* A painting, sculpture, photograph or other artwork or mass-media-reproduced image depicting one or more human figure(s) in a state of near or total undress.
    Michelangelo's David is a well-known standing male nude; Michelangelo also created several other nudes.
    Lexa sent me a nude last week.
* (with article, "the nude") The state of total nudity.
    she caught him in the nude
* A color that resembles or evokes bare flesh; a paint, dye, etc. of such color.
** 2013, Debra, How to be a Man Magnet‎:What eye shadow looks best on my eye color? Brown eyes – Off whites, nudes, peaches, and purples.

#### Translations
### See also

* naturism
* skinny dipping
* birthday suit
* fig leaf

### References

* “nude”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Anagrams

* Düne, dune, undé

## Interlingua
### Etymology

Borrowed from English nude, Italian nudo, French nu and Spanish nudo/Portuguese nu (also desnudo and desnudo), all from Latin nūdus.

### Adjective

nude (comparative plus nude, superlative le plus nude)
* nude, naked, bare

#### Derived terms

* nuditate

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnu.de/
* Rhymes: -ude
* Hyphenation: nù‧de

### Adjective

nude
* feminine plural of nudo

### Anagrams

* dune

## Latin
### Adjective

nūde
* vocative masculine singular of nūdus

### References

* “nude”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀦𑀼𑀤𑁂 (Brahmi script)
* नुदे (Devanagari script)
* নুদে (Bengali script)
* නුදෙ (Sinhalese script)
* နုဒေ or ၼုၻေ (Burmese script)
* นุเท (Thai script)
* ᨶᩩᨴᩮ (Tai Tham script)
* ນຸເທ (Lao script)
* នុទេ (Khmer script)
* 𑄚𑄪𑄘𑄬 (Chakma script)

### Verb

nude
* optative active singular of nudati (“to push”)

## Portuguese
### Noun

nude (Brazil) m or (Portugal) f (plural nudes)
* (Internet slang) nude (photograph of a naked person)

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈnu.de]

### Adjective

nude
* feminine/neuter plural of nud

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English nude.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnude/ [ˈnu.ð̞e]
** Rhymes: -ude
** Syllabification: nu‧de
* IPA: /ˈnjud/ [ˈnjuð̞]
** Rhymes: -ud

### Noun

nude f (plural nudes)
* nude (a photograph of a naked person)
    Juan me envió una nude la semana pasada.Juan sent me a nude last week.

#### Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.