Latin

Noun

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

Inflection

Third declension.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• in nuce ‎(“in a nutshell”)
• nucēs relinquō ‎(“I give up childish sports”)
• nux cassa ‎(“nutshell”)
• nux indica
• nux muscata
• nux vomica
• nucleus

Descendants

References

• 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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “nux”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• nux in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers