nasute

Latin nasutus.

• IPA^(key): /neɪˈsuːt/, /neɪˈsjuːt/

nasute (comparative more nasute, superlative most nasute)

1. Having a long snout.
2. (obsolete) Having a sensitive sense of smell.
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     nasute greedy Swine

3. (obsolete) pedantic; captious

nasute (plural nasutes)

1. A kind of termite with a nasus.

“nasute”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Austen, Autens, Natsue, sun tea, uneats, unseat

From nāsūtus (“large-nosed, satirical”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /naːˈsuː.teː/, [näːˈs̠uːt̪eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /naˈsu.te/, [näˈs̬uːt̪e]

nāsūtē (comparative nāsūtius, superlative nāsūtissimē)

1. satirically, scornfully, wittily, sarcastically

• nāsus
• nāsūtus

• “nasute”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nasute in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.