# nux
## Latin
### 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”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /nuks/, [nʊks̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /nuks/, [nuks]

### Noun

nux f (genitive nucis); third declension
* nut
* nut tree
    Inter primas germinant ulmus, salix, nuces.Among the first to sprout are the elm, the willow, and the nut tree.
* a fruit with a hard shell or rind
    nux amara ― a bitter almond
    castaneae nuces ― chestnuts
    nux pinea ― the fruit of the tithymalus
* (figuratively) a thing of no value
** c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 2.3.45:Nōn ego tuam empsim vītam vitiosā nuce.I should not have bought your life with a vicious worthless thing.
* (poetic) almond tree

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Synonyms

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

#### Derived terms

* in nuce (“in a nutshell”)
* nucāmenta
* nucēs relinquō (“I give up childish sports”)
* nucētum
* nuceus
* nucicla
* nucifer
* nucifrangibulum
* nucinus
* nucipersicum
* nuciprūnum
* nucleus
* nucunculus
* nux cassa (“nutshell”)
* nux indica
* nux muscata
* nux vomica

#### Related terms

* nucleātus
* nucleō
* nucleolus

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: nuc m, nucã f
** Istro-Romanian: nuc m
** Megleno-Romanian: nucă f
** Romanian: nuc m, nucă f
* Dalmatian:
** nauc
* Italo-Romance:
** Corsican: noce
** Italian: noce m or f
** Neapolitan: noce
** Sicilian: nuci
* Padanian:
** Ligurian: nôxe
** Romagnol: nôș m, nôșa f
** Romansch: nusch m
** Venetan: noxa (see there for further descendants)
* Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: noués
** French: noix
** Occitan: notz, nose, noga
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: nuche, nughe, nuge, nugi
* Vulgar Latin:
** *nocem
*** Gallo-Romance:
**** Catalan: nou, anou (Alicante)
**** Gascon: nòde, nòtz
**** Occitan: nòse (all southern dialects)
*** Ibero-Romance:
**** Aragonese: nuez
    Ribagorçan: nou, anou; nuesa (Benasqués)
**** Asturian: nuaz, nuoz, anuez, nuez, ñuez
**** Old Galician-Portuguese: [Term?]
***** Galician: noz, anoz, noce
***** Portuguese: noz, nuace (Rio de Onor)
**** Old Spanish: [Term?]
***** Ladino: muez
***** Spanish: nuez
* Borrowings:
** → Esperanto: nukso
** → Ido: nuco

### References

* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “nŭx”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 7: N–Pas, page 257
* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “nux”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 420

### Further reading

* “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

## Zhuang
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Zhuang) IPA: /nu˦˨/
* Tone numbers: nu$^4$
* Hyphenation: nux

### Noun

nux (1957–1982 spelling nuч)
* leprosy

#### Derived terms

* baenznux