nervus

== Latin == === 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. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈnɛr.wʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈnɛr.vus] === Noun === nervus m (genitive nervī); second declension (anatomy) a sinew, tendon, nerve, muscle a cord, string or wire; string of a musical instrument; bow, bowstring; cords or wires by which a puppet is moved the leather with which shields were covered a thong with which a person was bound; fetter; prison (of plants) a fiber/fibre (figuratively) vigor, force, power, strength, energy, nerve Synonym: vīs ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “nervus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “nervus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "nervus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “nervus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “nervus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “nervus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin === Anagrams === vē̆rnus == Old French == === Etymology === From Latin nervōsus. === Adjective === nervus m (oblique and nominative feminine singular nervuse) sinew; tendon (attributively)