nex

• Rhymes: -ɛks

nex (not comparable)

1. Archaic form of next.

• xen-

From Proto-Italic *neks, from Proto-Indo-European *neḱ- (“perish, disappear”). Cognate with Welsh angau (“death”), Breton ankou, Old Irish éc, Ancient Greek νέκυς (nékus, “corpse”), Old Persian 𐎻𐎴𐎰𐎹𐎫𐎹 (vi-n-θ-y-t-y /⁠vi-nathayatiy⁠/, “he injures”), Avestan 𐬥𐬀𐬯𐬌𐬌𐬈𐬌𐬙𐬌 (nasiieⁱti, “disappears”), 𐬥𐬀𐬯𐬎- (nasu-, “corpse”), Sanskrit नश्यति (naśyati, “disappear, perish”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /neks/, [nɛks̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /neks/, [nɛks]

nex f (genitive necis); third declension

1. murder, slaughter, killing, violent death (as opposed to mors)

   Synonyms: lētum, homicīdium, occīsiō, excidium, iugulum, occīdiō

Third-declension noun.

• Sardinian: neche, neghe

• “nex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from Latin nexus.

nex n (plural nexuri)

1. nexus

• nex in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)