English

Noun

Negus ‎(plural Neguses)

1. (historical) A ruler of Ethiopia or of a province of Ethiopia; specifically, the supreme ruler of Ethiopia before 1974.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 240:

     It was a Syrian merchant, Frumentius, who is credited with converting Ezana, the Negus (king or emperor) of the powerful northern Ethiopian state of Aksum.

Translations

Proper noun

Negus

1. An English surname of unknown derivation

Anagrams

• genus

References

• “Negus” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
• “Negus” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.

English

Noun

negus ‎(plural neguses)

1. A drink of wine, lemon, sugar, nutmeg and hot water.
   • 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, page 177 (ISBN 1857150570)

     And when he got home he had a glass of hot negus in his wife's sitting-room, and read the last number of the “Little Dorrit” of the day with great inward satisfaction.

   • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter VII, Section vi

     Esther began […] to cry. But when the fire had been lit specially to warm her chilled limbs and Adela had plied her with hot negus she began to feel rather a heroine.

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 258:

     ‘I could sure use a cup of negus and maybe some hot soup,’ he sniffs.

Translations

Anagrams

• genus

Portuguese

Noun

negus m (plural neguses)

1. (historical) Negus (supreme Ethiopian ruler)