Noun: nex
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension: Third
Genitive
| Singular | necis |
| Plural | necum |
Dative
| Singular | necī |
| Plural | necibus |
Accusative
| Singular | necem |
| Plural | necēs |
Ablative
| Singular | nece |
| Plural | necibus |
Sample Sentences
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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?
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(Refers to a symbolic aquila, the standard of a Roman military force, that Catiline had kept enshrined in his own home.)) [63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.24]
Nouns inflected like nex
sandȳx,
sandīx,
scolax,
smīlax,
prōcrāstinātrīx,
pōtrīx,
auxiliātrīx,
senātrīx,
adsistrīx,
adiūtrīx,
ōrātrīx,
vēnātrīx,
adulterātrīx,
perpetrātrīx,
sēductrīx,
iuvenix,
meretrīx,
zmīlax,
balneātrīx,
contemplātrīx, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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”). See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
νέκυς'.
Verbs referencing "nex"
Irish Nouns
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Translations