# nexus
## English
### Etymology

From Latin nexus (“connection, nexus; act of binding, tying or fastening together; something which binds, binding, bond, fastening, joint; legal obligation”), from nectō (“to attach, bind, connect, fasten, tie; to interweave; to relate; to unite; to bind by obligation, make liable, oblige; to compose, contrive, devise, produce”) + -tus (suffix forming verbal nouns).

### Pronunciation

* Singular:
** (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈnɛksəs/
** Audio (Received Pronunciation):(file)
** Audio (General American):(file)
** Rhymes: -ɛksəs
* Plural (nexus, nexūs, nexûs):
** (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈnɛksuːs/
** (General American) IPA: /ˈnɛksus/
* Hyphenation: nex‧us

### Noun

nexus (countable and uncountable, plural nexuses or nexusses or (rare) nexus)
* A form or state of connection.
    Synonyms: bond, junction, link, tie; see also Thesaurus:junction, Thesaurus:link
** (Canada, US, finance, law) The relationship between a vendor and a jurisdiction for the purpose of taxation, established for example by the vendor operating a physical store in that jurisdiction.
* A connected group; a network, a web.
** 2023 May 14, Panarat Thepgumpanat, Panu Wongcha-um, “Thailand's opposition opens up big election lead as army parties slide”, in Reuters‎:Sunday's election pits Move Forward and the billionaire Shinawatra family's Pheu Thai against ruling parties backed by a nexus of old money, conservatives and generals with influence over key institutions involved in two decades of upheaval in Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy.
* A centre or focus of something.
    Synonyms: hub, junction
* (grammar) In the work of the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen (1860–1943): a group of words expressing two concepts in one unit (such as a clause or sentence).
* (Ancient Rome, law, historical) A person who had contracted a nexum or obligation of such a kind that, if they failed to pay, their creditor could compel them to work as a servant until the debt was paid; an indentured servant.

#### Usage notes

* The Latin plural form (written nexūs or nexûs) is sometimes used in academic discussions of process philosophy.

#### Derived terms

* nexal

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ “nexus, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2019; “nexus, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Further reading

* nexus grammar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* nexus (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* UN*Xes, unsex

## Latin
### Etymology

Perfect passive participle of nectō (“bind”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈnek.sus/, [ˈnɛks̠ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈnek.sus/, [ˈnɛksus]

### Participle

nexus (feminine nexa, neuter nexum); first/second-declension participle
* bound, tied, fastened, connected, interwoven, having been bound.
* bound by obligation, obliged, made liable, pledged, having been obliged.

#### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

### Noun

nexus m (genitive nexūs); fourth declension
* the act of binding, tying or fastening together
* something which binds; bond, joint, binding, fastening; connection; nexus
* a personal obligation of a debtor
* a legal obligation

#### Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

#### Synonyms

* (joint): iunctūra
* (fastening): nexiō
* (connection): nexilitās

#### Related terms

* nectō
* nexābundē
* nexibilis
* nexilis
* nexilitās
* nexiō
* nexō
* nexum
* nexuōsus

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: nexe
* → English: nexus
* → French: nexus
* → Italian: nesso (semi-learned)
* → Portuguese: nexo
* → Romanian: nex
* → Spanish: nexo

### References

* “nexus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “nexus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* nexus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. concatenation, interdependence of causes: rerum causae aliae ex aliis nexae systematic succession, concatenation: continuatio seriesque rerum, ut alia ex alia nexa et omnes inter se aptae colligataeque sint (N. D. 1. 4. 9) the connection: sententiae inter se nexae the connection: contextus orationis (not nexus, conexus sententiarum)
* nexus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016