Latin

Noun

nūtus m ‎(genitive nūtūs); fourth declension

1. nod, nodding
2. downward tendency or motion; the pull of gravity
3. command, will, pleasure

Inflection

Fourth declension.

Descendants

• Portuguese: nuto

References

• nutus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nutus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “nutus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • gravity: nutus et pondus or simply nutus (ῥοπή)
    
  • to take one's directions from another; to obey him in everything: se convertere, converti ad alicuius nutum
    
  • to be at the beck and call of another; to be his creature: totum se fingere et accommodare ad alicuius arbitrium et nutum