Naso

 

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Naso n

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Acanthuridae – unicornfishes.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Actinopterygii – superclass; Teleostei – class; Acanthopterygii - superorder; Acanthuriformes - order; Acanthuroidei - suborder; Acanthuridae - family

• (genus): Naso unicornis bluespine unicornfish) - type species

•   Naso (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
•   Naso on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
•   Naso on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Naso at World Register of Marine Species
• Naso at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Naso at the Catalogue of Life 
• Naso at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Naso at Paleobiology Database

Borrowed from Italian Naso.

Naso (plural Nasos)

1. A surname from Italian.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Naso is the 31211^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 743 individuals. Naso is most common among White (91.92%) individuals.

• -sona, Naos, naos, ONAs, Onas, Noas, AONs, sona, SONA, Sona, Sano

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Naso m or f by sense

1. a surname

• Naos, Sanò, Sona, anso, ansò, sano, sanò, sona

From nāsus (“nose”) +‎ -ō (person-characterizing suffix). The original meaning is "the large-nosed one".

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnaː.soː/, [ˈnäːs̠oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈna.so/, [ˈnäːs̬o]

Nāsō m sg (genitive Nāsōnis); third declension

1. a cognomen used by the gentes Actoria and Ovidia
   1. Publius Ovidius Naso

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• Translingual: Naso

• “Naso”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Naso in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.