nexus

== English == === Etymology === 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). === Pronunciation === Singular: (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈnɛksəs/ Rhymes: -ɛksəs Plural (nexus, nexūs, nexûs): (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈnɛksuːs/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈnɛksus/ Hyphenation: nex‧us === Noun === nexus (countable and uncountable, plural nexuses or nexusses or (rare) nexus) A form or state of connection. Synonyms: bond, junction, link, tie; see also Thesaurus:junction, Thesaurus:link (Canada, US, finance, law) The relationship between a vendor and a jurisdiction for the purpose of taxation, established for example by the vendor operating a physical store in that jurisdiction. A connected group; a network, a web. A centre or focus of something. Synonyms: hub, junction (grammar) 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, law, historical) 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. ==== Usage notes ==== The Latin plural form (written nexūs or nexûs) is sometimes used in academic discussions of process philosophy. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === nexus grammar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia nexus (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === UN*Xes, unsex == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈnɛk.sʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈnɛk.sus] === Etymology 1 === Perfect passive participle of nectō (“bind”). ==== Participle ==== nexus (feminine nexa, neuter nexum); first/second-declension participle bound, tied, fastened, connected, interwoven, having been bound. bound by obligation, obliged, made liable, pledged, having been obliged. (nominalized, masculine, Ancient Rome, law) debtors who, having failed to cover the security they owed to their creditor, were enslaved to them as bondsmen (the practice was abolished in 326 BC, see quotes) Coordinate term: nexum ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. === Etymology 2 === From nectō +‎ -tus (forming action nouns). ==== Noun ==== nexus m (genitive nexūs); fourth declension (abstract) the act of binding, tying or fastening together Synonym: nexiō (concrete) something which binds; bond, joint, binding, fastening; nexus Synonym: iunctūra connection Synonym: nexilitās a personal obligation of a debtor a legal obligation ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. ===== Derived terms ===== nexuōsus ===== Related terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== === References === “nexus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “nexus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “nexus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “nexus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “nexus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[3], London: Macmillan and Co. nexus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[4], pre-publication website, 2005-2016