nexum

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin nexum. === Noun === nexum A contract in early Ancient Rome in which the debtor pledged his own person as collateral should he default on his loan (thus risking becoming a slave to the creditor). ==== Related terms ==== nexus == Latin == === Etymology === Nominalization of nexus. === Noun === nexum n (genitive nexī); second declension (Ancient Rome, law) a bond secured upon the personal liberty of the debtor after having failed to cover for an earlier security, which made him a slave (nexus) of his master creditor ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). === Participle === nexum inflection of nexus: nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular accusative masculine singular === Noun === nexum accusative singular of nexus (substantive) === Noun === nexum accusative singular of nexus (action noun) === References === “nexum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “nexum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “nexum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “nexum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “nexum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin