nisus

== English == === Etymology === From Latin nīsus (“pressure, exertion”). === Noun === nisus (usually uncountable, plural nisuses) A mental or physical effort to attain a specific goal; a striving. The periodic procreative desire manifested in the spring by birds, etc. The contraction of the diaphragm and abdominal muscles to evacuate faeces or urine. 1833, James O' Beirne, New Views on the Process of Defecation, and Their Application to the Pathology and Treatment of Diseases of the Stomach, Bowels, and Other Organs, quoted in 1833, John Johnson (editor), The Medico-Chirurgical Review, New Series: Volume 19 (Volume 23 of the Analytical Series), page 7, The evacuation of the rectum and bladder being completed, immediately the nisus ceases, the rectum and the sphincters return to their former state of contraction, the diaphragm reascends, carrying with it and restoring to their proper situations the liver, the stomach, the spleen, the small intestines, the cæcum, and the ascending, transverse and descending portions of the colon. === Anagrams === Sunis, sinus == Estonian == === Noun === nisus inessive singular of nisu == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈniː.sʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈniː.s̬us] === Etymology 1 === From nītor + -tus. ==== Noun ==== nīsus m (genitive nīsūs); fourth declension alternative form of nīxus ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. === Etymology 2 === Perfect active participle of nītor. ==== Participle ==== nīsus (feminine nīsa, neuter nīsum); first/second-declension participle alternative form of nīxus ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. === Etymology 3 === From Ancient Greek Νῖσος (Nîsos). ==== Noun ==== nīsus m (genitive nīsī); second declension sea-eagle sparrowhawk ===== Declension ===== Second-declension noun. === References === “nisus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "nisus", 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) “nisus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “nisus”, in The Perseus Project (1999), Perseus Encyclopedia‎[2] “nisus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “nisus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray