nervus – Latin noun declension

Latin noun forms of nervus

Noun: nervus
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine Declension: Second

Nominative

Singularnervus
Pluralnervī

Genitive

Singularnervī
Pluralnervōrum

Dative

Singularnervō
Pluralnervīs

Accusative

Singularnervum
Pluralnervōs

Ablative

Singularnervō
Pluralnervīs

Vocative

Singularnerve
Pluralnervī

Sample Sentences

  • […]: trepidantem et terga parantem ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [8 CE, Ovidius, Metamorphoses 8.363–364]
  • Cum mihi Cous adesset Amyntas,
  • cuius in indomito constantior inguine nervus ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 30 BCE, Horatius, Epodi 12.18–20]
  • […]admotisque manibus temptare coepit inguinum vires. Dicto citius nervi paruerunt imperio, manusque aniculae ingenti motu repleverunt. ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 131.5–6]
  • Fata regunt homines, fatum est et partibus illis
  • quas sinus abscondit. Nam si tibi sidera cessant,
  • nil faciet longi mensura incognita nerui,
  • […] ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 100 CE – c. 130 CE, Juvenalis, Saturae 3.9.32–34]
  • […]; nam coitus iam longa oblivio, vel si
  • coneris, iacet exiguus cum ramice nervus ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 100 CE – c. 130 CE, Juvenalis, Saturae 4.10.204–205]
  • Near-synonyms: fūnis, restis, rū̆dēns
  • Tālia iactantem dictīs ac dīra canentem
  • nōn tulit Ascanius, nervōque obversus equīnō
  • contendit tēlum[…] ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 9.621–623]
  • nempe
  • tu, mihi qui imperitas, aliis servis miser atque ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 35 BCE, Horatius, Sermones 2.7.80–82]
  • Near-synonyms: vinculum, compēs; carcer
  • vincito aut nervo aut compedibus ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [449 BCE, Lex duodecim tabularum 3.3]
  • Nervum appellamus etiam ferreum vinculum, quo pedes impediuntur. quamquam Plautus eo etiam cervices vinciri ait: “Perfidiose captus edepol nervo cervices probat.” [[2nd century CE, Sextus Pompeius Festus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, De Significatione Verborum, published 1839, page 165, lines 23-26; epitomized by Paul the Deacon, 8th c.:]
  • Fugit illa per oras
  • multiplicis lini subtextaque tegmina neruis ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 83 CE – 96 CE, Silius Italicus, Punica 4.293]
  • Denserent ictus, ora mucronibus quaererent: non loricam Germano, non galeam, ne scuta quidem ferro nervove firmata, sed viminum textus vel tenuis et fucatas colore tabulas;[…] ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 117 CE, Tacitus, Annales 2.14]

Nouns inflected like nervus

priāpismus, scāpus, servus, cuneolus, sargus, saccus, scarus, scinus, scopus, illēgitimus, sorbus, sophus, somnus, Hispānus, soccus, sirpus, siclus, icterus, cunīculus, xystus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

By a metathesis of Old Latin *neuros, from Proto-Italic *(s)nēuros, a thematicization of Proto-Indo-European *snḗh₁wr̥ (“sinew, tendon”). Cognates include Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “tendon, string, nerve”), Old English sinu (“tendon, nerve, sinew”). More at English nerve. See: Ancient Greek Nouns 'νεῦρον', Old English Nouns 'sinu', English Nouns 'nerve'.

Verbs referencing "nervus"

French Nouns nerf, English Nouns nerve, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns nerve, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns nerve, English Nouns sinew, Italian Nouns nerbo, Danish Nouns sene, Czech Nouns nerv, Romanian Nouns nerv, Swedish Nouns nerv, Catalan Nouns nervi, Italian Nouns nervo, Portuguese Nouns nervo, Galician Nouns nervio, Spanish Nouns nervio, German Nouns Nerv, Ancient Greek Nouns νεῦρον, Polish Nouns nerw, English Nouns nervation, French Nouns nervation, Russian Nouns нерв, Ukrainian Nouns нерв, Asturian Nouns nerviu, Old Spanish Nouns nerbio, English Nouns nerue.

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