nexus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
grammar
human-sciences
law
linguistics
sciences
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”, supine stem nex-) + -tus (suffix forming verbal nouns).
Inflected forms:
form: nexuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nexusses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nexus
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: nexi
pos: noun
tags: hypercorrect
plural
form: nexii
pos: noun
tags: misconstruction
plural
Senses:
gloss: A form or state of connection.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A form or state of connection.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
uncountable
gloss: A connected group; a network, a web.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A centre or focus of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: More than just a corporate juggernaut, Nvidia also has become an instrument of statecraft, operating at the nexus of advanced technology, diplomacy, and geopolitics.
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: Ancient-Rome
countable
historical
uncountable
Derived words: nexal
nexus flip
nexus flipping
perinexus
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: връзка
roman: vrǎzka
lang: Bulgarian
word: свързване
roman: svǎrzvane
lang: Catalan
word: nexe
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 連結 /连结
roman: liánjié
lang: Czech
word: nexus
lang: Czech
word: souvislost
lang: Czech
word: spojení
lang: Danish
word: bindeled
lang: Danish
word: forbindelse
lang: Danish
word: sammenhæng
lang: Dutch
word: band
lang: Dutch
word: verbinding
lang: Estonian
word: seos
lang: Finnish
word: yhteys
lang: French
word: nexus
lang: French
word: lien
lang: Georgian
word: კავშირი
roman: ḳavširi
lang: German
word: Verbindung
lang: German
word: Verknüpfung
lang: Irish
word: nasc
lang: Italian
word: nesso
lang: Italian
word: connessione
lang: Italian
word: legame
lang: Japanese
word: 連結
roman: renketsu
lang: Latin
word: nexus
lang: Occitan
word: nexe
lang: Polish
word: ogniwo
lang: Polish
word: związek
lang: Portuguese
word: nexo
lang: Russian
word: связь
roman: svjazʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: спо̑ј
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ве̏за
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: spȏj
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vȅza
lang: Spanish
word: nexo
lang: Spanish
word: conexión
lang: Swedish
word: förbindelse
lang: Turkish
word: bağ
lang: Turkish
word: bağlantı
lang: Turkish
word: rabıta
lang: Ukrainian
word: зв'язо́к
roman: zvʺjazók
lang: Vietnamese
word: kết nối