nugax

== Latin == === Etymology === From nūgor (“to play the fool”) +‎ -āx. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈnuː.ɡaːks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈnuː.ɡaks] === Adjective === nūgāx (genitive nūgācis, comparative nūgācior, superlative nūgācissimus, adverb nūgāciter); third-declension one-termination adjective jesting; trifling; frivolous ==== Declension ==== Third-declension one-termination adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== === References === “nugax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press