Nasica

Wikispecies

From Latin nāsīca (“large-nosed person”), from nasus (“nose”) + -ica (“-ic: forming adjectives”).

Nasica f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Furnariidae.

• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, →ISBN

From nāsīca (“large-nosed person”)

Nāsīca m sg (genitive Nāsīcae); first declension

1. a cognomen of the Cornelii Scipiones of the gens Cornelia

   Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica

    

First-declension noun, singular only.

• Scipio Nasica on the English Wikipedia

• George Davis Chase, "Origin of Roman Praenomina", Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 8, 1897, p. 109.