nux

From Proto-Indo-European *knew- (compare Old Irish cnú, Old English hnutu, Albanian nyç (“a gnarl”)) and Persian لوز‎ (lowz)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /nuks/, [nʊks]

nux f (genitive nucis); third declension

1. A nut
2. A nut-tree

   Inter primas germinant ulmus, salix, nuces.

3. A fruit with a hard shell or rind

   Nux amara.

   A bitter almond.

   Castaneae nuces.

   Chestnuts.

   Nux pinea.

   The fruit of the tithymalus.

4. (figuratively) a thing of no value

   Non ego tuam empsim vitam vitiosā nuce.

   I should not have bought your life with a vicious worthless thing.

5. (poetic) an almond tree

Third declension.

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

• nucleō
• nucleātus
• nucleolus

• 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, 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