nex

See also: NEX and nex'

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Neme with x as a placeholder.

Symbol

nex

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Neme.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Neme terms

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛks

Adjective

nex (not comparable)

1. Archaic form of next.

Anagrams

• xen-

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *neks, from Proto-Indo-European *neḱ- (“perish, disappear”). Cognate with Welsh angau (“death”), Breton ankou, Old Irish éc, Ancient Greek νέκυς (nékus, “corpse”), Old Persian 𐎻𐎴𐎰𐎹𐎫𐎹 (vi-n-θ-y-t-y /⁠vi-nathayatiy⁠/, “he injures”), Avestan 𐬥𐬀𐬯𐬌𐬌𐬈𐬌𐬙𐬌 (nasiieⁱti, “disappears”), 𐬥𐬀𐬯𐬎- (nasu-, “corpse”), Sanskrit नश्यति (naśyati, “disappear, perish”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnɛks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnɛks]

Noun

nex f (genitive necis); third declension

1. murder, slaughter, killing, violent death (as opposed to mors)

   Synonyms: lētum, homicīdium, occīsiō, excidium, iugulum, occīdiō

   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.24:

     Tū ut illa carēre diūtius possīs — quam venerārī ad caedem proficīscēns solēbās — ā cuius altāribus saepe istam impiam dexteram ad necem cīvium trānstulistī?

     How could you be without it much longer — that which you were accustomed to venerate when setting out for slaughter — [and] from whose altars you have often transferred that wicked right hand of yours to the murder of citizens?
     (Refers to a symbolic aquila, the standard of a Roman military force, that Catiline had kept enshrined in his own home.)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	nex	necēs
genitive	necis	necum
dative	necī	necibus
accusative	necem	necēs
ablative	nece	necibus
vocative	nex	necēs

Related terms

• necō
• noceō
• noxa
• pernecō

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: neche, neghe
• Italo-Romance:
  • ⇒ Italian: neccio (Lazio), niecioro (Lucca), aneceto (Chianti)
• Borrowings:
  • → Italian: nece

References

• “nex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nex”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nexus.

Noun

nex n (plural nexuri)

1. nexus

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	nex	nexul		nexuri	nexurile
genitive-dative	nex	nexului		nexuri	nexurilor
vocative	nexule			nexurilor

Further reading

• “nex”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025