nexus
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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”) + -tus (suffix forming verbal nouns).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- Singular:
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈnɛksəs/
Audio (Received Pronunciation): (file) Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛksəs
- Plural (nexus, nexūs, nexûs):
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈnɛksuːs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈnɛksus/
- Hyphenation: nex‧us
Noun
[edit]nexus (countable and uncountable, plural nexuses or nexusses or (rare) nexus)
- A form or state of connection.
- Synonyms: bond, junction, link, tie; see also Thesaurus:junction, Thesaurus:link
- (Canada, US, finance, law) The relationship between a vendor and a jurisdiction for the purpose of taxation, established for example by the vendor operating a physical store in that jurisdiction.
- A connected group; a network, a web.
- 2023 May 14, Panarat Thepgumpanat, Panu Wongcha-um, “Thailand's opposition opens up big election lead as army parties slide”, in Reuters[1]:
- 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.
- A centre or focus of something.
- (grammar) 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).
- (Ancient Rome, law, historical) 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.
Usage notes
[edit]The Latin plural form (written nexūs or nexûs) is sometimes used in academic discussions of process philosophy.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]form or state of connection
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relationship between a vendor and jurisdiction for the purpose of taxation
connected group — see also network
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centre or focus of something
group of words expressing two concepts in one unit
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
References
[edit]- ^ “nexus, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2019; “nexus, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
[edit]nexus grammar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perfect passive participle of nectō (“bind”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈnek.sus/, [ˈnɛks̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈnek.sus/, [ˈnɛksus]
Participle
[edit]nexus (feminine nexa, neuter nexum); first/second-declension participle
- bound, tied, fastened, connected, interwoven, having been bound.
- bound by obligation, obliged, made liable, pledged, having been obliged.
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | nexus | nexa | nexum | nexī | nexae | nexa | |
| genitive | nexī | nexae | nexī | nexōrum | nexārum | nexōrum | |
| dative | nexō | nexae | nexō | nexīs | |||
| accusative | nexum | nexam | nexum | nexōs | nexās | nexa | |
| ablative | nexō | nexā | nexō | nexīs | |||
| vocative | nexe | nexa | nexum | nexī | nexae | nexa | |
Noun
[edit]nexus m (genitive nexūs); fourth declension
- the act of binding, tying or fastening together
- something which binds; bond, joint, binding, fastening; connection; nexus
- a personal obligation of a debtor
- a legal obligation
Declension
[edit]Fourth-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | nexus | nexūs |
| genitive | nexūs | nexuum |
| dative | nexuī | nexibus |
| accusative | nexum | nexūs |
| ablative | nexū | nexibus |
| vocative | nexus | nexūs |
Synonyms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “nexus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nexus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nexus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- concatenation, interdependence of causes: rerum causae aliae ex aliis nexae
- systematic succession, concatenation: continuatio seriesque rerum, ut alia ex alia nexa et omnes inter se aptae colligataeque sint (N. D. 1. 4. 9)
- the connection: sententiae inter se nexae
- the connection: contextus orationis (not nexus, conexus sententiarum)
- concatenation, interdependence of causes: rerum causae aliae ex aliis nexae
- nexus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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