nidus Latin · revision 32127

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=inherited|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *nisdo-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈniː.dʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈniː.dus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''nīdus''' ''m'' (genitive nīdī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|itc-pro|*nizdo-]], [[inh|ine-pro|*nisdo-|t=nest]], a compound of [[m|ine-pro|*ni|t=down]] and the root [[m|ine-pro|*sd-|t=to sit]], “where one sits down”.^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary) Cognate with [[sa|नीड|tr=nīḍá|t=nest, lair]], [[xcl|նիստ|tr=nist|t=residence]], [[cu|гнѣздо|tr=gnězdo|t=nest]], [[cy|nyth|t=nest]], [[lt|lìzdas|t=nest]] and [[en|nest]].^(de Vaan 2008)^(Wiktionary)^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Plautus,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) in whose ''Rudens'' someone wants to snatch the swallows from their nest.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means the nest of a bird or other creature;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Cicero speaks of birds building nests, and Virgil of the swallow hanging its nest from the beams.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) By transfer it is a lofty retreat, as Horace's “nest of high Acherontia”.^(OLD 2012) By metonymy it is a brood of nestlings, as in the ''Georgics'', where birds carry food to their greedy young.^(OLD 2012) Varro uses it apparently of a nest-shaped bowl, and Martial of a pigeonhole in a bookshop.^(OLD 2012) Church Latin glosses it nest, brood.^(Stelten 1995) English borrowed ''nidus'' in 1742.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of swallows' nests.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of birds building nests.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil of nests and of broods.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 65–8 BC – Horace of a lofty town.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 40–102/103 AD – Martial of a pigeonhole.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1742 – Borrowed into English as [[m|en|nidus]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|nest]] of a bird or other creature.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A lofty retreat, an [[m|en|eyrie]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # A brood of nestlings; the young of other animals.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # A nest-shaped vessel, a bowl.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A compartment, [[m|en|pigeonhole]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[nīdificō]]

+ * [[nīdifōrmis]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sedeo|alt=sedeō]]

+ * [[en|nest]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}