Noun: nerue
| Singular | nerue |
| Plural | nerues |
Sample Sentences
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My fate cries out,
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And makes each petty Artire in this body,
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As hardy as the Nemian Lions nerue:
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Still am I cal'd? Vnhand me Gentlemen:
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By Heau'n, Ile make a Ghost of him that lets me:
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I say away, goe on, Ile follow thee. [c. 1599-1601, Shakespeare, Hamlet, act I, scene iv, lines 81–83:]
Nouns inflected like nerue
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Recorded since circa [1374] as Middle English nerve, from Medieval Latin nervus (“nerve”), from Latin nervus (“sinew”). Doublet of neuron and sinew. See: Middle English Nouns '
nerve', Latin Nouns '
nervus'.