nicto
Latin
Alternative forms
- (deponent form) nictor
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *kneygʷʰ- (“to bend, to droop”). Cognate with connīveō, nītor (“to bear or rest upon something”), Proto-Germanic *hnīwaną.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈnik.toː/, [ˈnɪkt̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈnik.to/, [ˈnikt̪o]
Conjugation
Derived terms
- nictātiō
Related terms
- nictus
Descendants
- English: nictate
References
- “nicto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- nicto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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