negus

• IPA^(key): /ˈniːɡəs/

Named from Colonel Francis Negus (died 1732), its creator.

negus (countable and uncountable, plural neguses)

1. A drink made of wine, often port, mixed with hot water, oranges or lemons, spices and sugar.
   • 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers. […], copyright edition, volume II, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1859, →OCLC, page 177:

     And when he got home he had a glass of hot negus in his wife's sitting-room, and read the last number of the “Little Dorrit” of the day with great inward satisfaction.

   • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House is Built, Chapter VII, Section vi:

     Esther began […] to cry. But when the fire had been lit specially to warm her chilled limbs and Adela had plied her with hot negus she began to feel rather a heroine.

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 258:

     ‘I could sure use a cup of negus and maybe some hot soup,’ he sniffs.

1590s, borrowed from Amharic ንጉሥ (nəguś, “king, ruler”), itself a loan from Ge'ez ንጉሥ (nəguś, “king, ruler”), from the verb ነግሠ (nägśä, “rule”).

negus (plural neguses)

1. (historical) A ruler of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), or of a province of Ethiopia; specifically, the king of Ethiopia before 1974.
   • 1614 Samuel Purchas, Purchas his pilgrimes. part 2 In fiue bookes, Chap. V. The Voyage of Sir FRANCIS ALVAREZ, a Portugall Priest, made vnto the Court of PRETE IANNI, the great Christian Emperour of Ethiopia, §. XVII. (p. 1102)

     Sir, the Negus of Ethiopia is here in person; and this is the day of our death, doe what you can to saue your selfe, for my part I meane here to die

   • 1739, John Campbell, The Travels and Adventures of Edward Brown, page 292:

     In the Abyssinian Language a King is call'd Negus. Their Monarch they stile Negus Negasta, which is as much as to say, King of Kings.

   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 240:

     It was a Syrian merchant, Frumentius, who is credited with converting Ezana, the Negus (king or emperor) of the powerful northern Ethiopian state of Aksum.

• genus

Borrowed from Amharic ንጉሥ (nəguś, “king”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛ.ɡus/
• Rhymes: -ɛɡus
• Hyphenation: nè‧gus

negus m (invariable)

1. (historical) title of the highest grade in the hierarchy of the Ethiopian Empire; Negus

• negussita

• ras

• sugne

Borrowed from Amharic ንጉሥ (nəguś, “king”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛ.ɡus/
• Rhymes: -ɛɡus
• Syllabification: ne‧gus

negus m pers

1. (historical) negus (supreme Ethiopian ruler)

• negus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Amharic ንጉሥ (nəguś).

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈnɛ.ɡus/

negus m (plural neguses)

1. (historical) Negus (supreme Ethiopian ruler)

Borrowed from French negous.

negus m (plural neguși)

1. negus (ruler of Abyssinia)

negus m (plural neguses)

1. (historical) Negus (supreme Ethiopian ruler)

• “negus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28