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nuc

nuc

See also: NUC and nüc

English

Noun

nuc ‎(plural nucs)

(beekeeping) A nucleus colony; a small bee colony created from a larger colony.
- 1998, Sue Hubbell, A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them (page 110)
  I have to take brood from established hives to set up nucs, as I did the previous week […]

Anagrams

unc

Aromanian

Alternative forms

nucu

Etymology

From Latin nux, nucis.

Noun

nuc m ‎(plural nuts)

walnut tree

Related terms

nucã

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin nux, nucis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *knew-.

Noun

nuc m ‎(plural nuci)

walnut (tree)

Derived terms

Related terms

nucet

Declension

declension of nuc

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) nuc	nucul	(niște) nuci	nucii
genitive/dative	(unui) nuc	nucului	(unor) nuci	nucilor
vocative	nucule		nucilor

References

nuc in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language), 2004-2016

Tapachultec

Noun

nuc

water

Usage notes

This is the form given in Johnston's vocabulary; Lehmann says the form in the Sapper-Ricke wordlists is nog.

References

Walter Lehmann, Über die Stellung und Verwandtschaft der Subtiaba-Sprache der pazifischen Küste Nicaraguas und über die Sprache von Tapachula in Südchiapas (1915), Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 47, presenting the wordlists of Karl Sapper, Ricke, and Amado Johnston.