Noun: nidus
| Singular | nidus |
| Plural | nidi; niduses |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like nidus
renal calculus,
pylorus,
prolapsus,
parahippocampal gyrus,
hyperradius,
succubus,
scarabaeus,
colossus,
eucalyptus,
papyrus,
disfocus,
polypus,
phallus,
solidus,
silurus,
lenticular nucleus,
dinosaurus,
chorepiscopus,
ankylosaurus,
fusiform gyrus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *ní
4. Proto-Indo-European *sed-
5. Proto-Indo-European *-ós
6. Proto-Indo-European *nisdós
7. Proto-Italic *nizdos
8. Latin nīdusbor.
9. English nidus
10. Borrowed from Latin nīdus (“nest”). Doublet of nye and nest. See: Latin Nouns '
nīdus'.