"nurus" meaning in Latin

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Noun

IPA: [ˈnʊ.rʊs] [Classical-Latin], [ˈnuː.rus] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *snusós, remade into an u-stem likely by influence of socrus, -ūs (“mother in law”). The first -u- is unexpected, as original *-u- before -r- arising from *-s- would have been expected to lower to *-o- (cf. serō < *sish₁-). The expected outcome is nevertheless reflected in most Romance descendants (eg. Spanish nuera, Italian nuora, etc.), although they could be secondary, and shifted from the attested -u- by influence of other female kinship terms such as socrus or soror (“sister”). The variant ending in -a, also found in Romance descendants but attested already in the Appendix Probi, while also conceivably secondary, reflects a Proto-Indo-European *snus-éh₂ also reflected in Proto-Germanic *snuzō, Proto-Slavic *snъxà and Sanskrit स्नुषा (snuṣā́). Etymology templates: {{yesno||i|I}} I, {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|la|ine-pro|*snusós|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Proto-Indo-European *snusós, {{inh+|la|ine-pro|*snusós}} Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *snusós, {{cog|es|nuera}} Spanish nuera, {{cog|it|nuora}} Italian nuora, {{der|la|ine-pro||*snus-éh₂}} Proto-Indo-European *snus-éh₂, {{cog|gem-pro|*snuzō}} Proto-Germanic *snuzō, {{cog|sla-pro|*snъxà}} Proto-Slavic *snъxà, {{cog|sa|स्नुषा|tr=snuṣā́}} Sanskrit स्नुषा (snuṣā́) Head templates: {{la-noun|nurus&lt;4&gt;|g=f}} nurus f (genitive nurūs); fourth declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|nurus&lt;4&gt;}} Forms: nurūs [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], nurus [nominative, singular], nurūs [nominative, plural], nurūs [genitive, singular], nuruum [genitive, plural], nuruī [dative, singular], nuribus [dative, plural], nurum [accusative, singular], nurūs [accusative, plural], nurū [ablative, singular], nuribus [ablative, plural], nurus [singular, vocative], nurūs [plural, vocative], nura [alternative, obsolete], *norum [alternative, Latin, vulgar], *nora [alternative, Latin, vulgar]
  1. daughter-in-law Tags: declension-4, feminine
    Sense id: en-nurus-la-noun-aaVJpX6X Categories (other): Female family members, Latin feminine nouns in the fourth declension Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the fourth declension: 34 31 35
  2. granddaughter-in-law Tags: declension-4, feminine
    Sense id: en-nurus-la-noun-9HMwA5eR Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin feminine nouns in the fourth declension, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 25 65 10 Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the fourth declension: 34 31 35 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 4 88 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 89 7
  3. (transferred sense) young married woman, young lady Tags: declension-4, feminine
    Sense id: en-nurus-la-noun-eaHEOWmC Categories (other): Latin feminine nouns in the fourth declension Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the fourth declension: 34 31 35

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Latin dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (96027d6 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.