English

Proper noun

Nero

1. Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
2. An agnomen first held by Tiberius Claudius Nero, an ancestor of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.
3. Any male member of the family Claudii Nerones, within the gens Claudia into which emperor Nero was adopted by emperor Claudius.
4. A male given name, more common in fiction than in real life.

   • 1963 Rex Stout, Trio for Blunt Instruments, Random House LLC (2010), ISBN 0307756297:

     • "Nero Wolfe. It's his house and he lives here." "That's an odd name. Nero Wolfe? What does he—Is he a lawyer?"

Related terms

• Nerōniānus, Neronian

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr.

Proper noun

Nerō m ‎(genitive Nerōnis); third declension

1. Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last Emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
2. An agnomen first held by Tiberius Claudius Nero, an ancestor of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.
3. Any male member of the family Claudii Nerones, within the gens Claudia into which emperor Nero was adopted by emperor Claudius.

Declension

Third declension.

Derived terms

• Nerōniānus

References

• Nero in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

1. ↑ Franco, The originof Indo-European languages: Structure and genesis of the mother tongue of Sanskrit, Greek and Latin

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin Nero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛ.ɾo/

Proper noun

Nero

1. Nero (Roman emperor)
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 67 (facsimile):

     […] que non foi feito tan grãde ben deſ lo tempo de nero

     […] which hadn’t been done so greatly since the times of Nero.

Descendants

• Portuguese: Nero

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese Nero, from Latin Nero.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɛ.ɾu/

Proper noun

Nero m

1. Nero (Roman emperor)

Noun

Nero m (plural Neros)

1. an excessively opulent or cruel statesman.

Slovak

Etymology

From Latin Nero.

Proper noun

Nero m ‎(genitive Neróna) declension pattern chlap

1. Nero

Declension

Derived terms

• nero m
• nerónsky

References

• Nero in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Finnish

Noun

nero

1. genius

Declension

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Erno, eron

Italian

Alternative forms

• negro

Etymology

From older negro, from Latin nigrum, accusative of niger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnero]

Adjective

nero m ‎(feminine singular nera, masculine plural neri, feminine plural nere)

1. black

Noun

nero m ‎(plural neri)

1. black colour
2. fascist, the extreme right
3. ink
4. a person of black skin
5. (heraldry) sable

Related terms

Anagrams

• Reno

See also

Japanese

Romanization

nero

1. rōmaji reading of ねろ

Latin

Etymology

From the archaic word for “man”, Old Latin *nara ‎(“man”).^[1], from Proto-Indo-European *h₂nḗr.

Proper noun

nerō m ‎(genitive nerōnis); third declension

1. An agnomen of the gens Claudia, first held by Tiberius Claudius Nero, an ancestor of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero.

Declension

Third declension.

Derived terms

• Nerōniānus, Neronian

References

• NERO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• nero in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
• nero in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nero in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

1. ↑ Franco, The origin of Indo-European languages: Structure and genesis of the mother tongue of Sanskrit, Greek and Latin

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish nero

Noun

nero

1. genius

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “гений”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika