nodus

Borrowed from Latin nōdus (“a knot”). Doublet of knot, knout, and node.

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• Rhymes: -əʊdəs

nodus (plural nodi)

1. A difficulty.
2. (zoology) In the Odonata, a prominent crossvein near the centre of the leading edge of a wing.

• nodal

• Sound, sound, udons, undos

Learned borrowing from Latin nōdus (“knot”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈnodus/ [ˈno.dʊs]
• Rhymes: -odus
• Syllabification: no‧dus

nodus (plural nodus-nodus)

1. (botany) articulation: a joint between two separable parts, as a leaf and a stem

   Synonyms: artikulasi, buku

2. (anatomy) node: a small mass of tissue that can be a knot, knob, or swelling

   Synonym: buku

• “nodus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Uncertain.^[1] Per De Vaan, potentially a loanword; it is possibly related to nassa (“fish-trap made of wickerwork”) and necto (“I bind”).^[1]

One theory derives it from Proto-Indo-European *gned-, *gnod- (“to bind”) and makes it cognate to Proto-Germanic *knuttô (“knot”) (whence Modern English knot).

Another theory derives it from Proto-Indo-European *ned- (“to turn, twist, knot”), whence English net and possibly nettle, Avestan 𐬥𐬀𐬯𐬐𐬀- (naska-, “bundle”), Old Irish nascim (“to bind”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnoː.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnɔː.d̪us]

nōdus m (genitive nōdī); second declension

1. a knot (in rope)
2. a knot (in wood)
3. a knob
4. a bond
5. an obligation
6. a sticking point
7. (in the plural) a knotted fishing net

Second-declension noun.

• (knot): nōdāmen

• nōdus Herculis, nōdus Herculāneus (“a knot difficult to untie”)
• nōdum in scirpō querō (“to look for knots in a bulrush which contains none; to find difficulties where there are none”)
• nōdus lymphāticus (“lymph node”)
• nōdus linguae (“the bond or tie of the tongue”)

  Nōdum linguae rumpere.

  To break the bond of the tongue.

• nōdus tollens (“the feeling that the plot of one's own life no longer makes sense (neologism)”)

• nexus

• “nodus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nodus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "nodus", 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)
• nodus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “nodus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Learned borrowing from Latin nodus.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔ.dus/
• Rhymes: -ɔdus
• Syllabification: no‧dus

nodus m inan

1. (religion) node (part of a stem of a chalice for mass resembling a small chapel)

• nodus in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1904), “nodus”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 3, Warsaw, page 401