napus

napus

1. plural of napu

• panus, Supan, Pusan, punas

From Ancient Greek νᾶπυ (nâpu, “mustard”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnaː.pʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnaː.pus]

nāpus m (genitive nāpī); second declension

1. turnip, field mustard (Brassica rapa)
2. rapeseed (Brassica napus)

Second-declension noun.

• (turnip): rāpum

• nāpīna

• nāpy

• “napus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "napus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• napus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.