nexus
Senso (Inglese)
- (countable, uncountable) A form or state of connection.
- (Canada, US, countable, uncountable) A form or state of connection.
- (countable, uncountable) A connected group; a network, a web.
- (countable, uncountable) A centre or focus of something.
- (countable, uncountable) 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, countable, historical, uncountable) 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.
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Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈnɛksəs/
Etimologia (Inglese)
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).
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