naevus

• nævus, nevus

Borrowed from Latin naevus.

naevus (plural naevi)

1. (anatomy) A pigmented, raised or otherwise abnormal area on the skin, whether congenital or acquired.

• birthmark
• longing mark
• mole
• mother's mark
• mother-spot
• naeve

• Uveans, unsave

Learned borrowing from Latin naevus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑeʋus/, [ˈnɑ̝e̞ʋus̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑeʋus
• Syllabification^(key): na‧e‧vus

naevus

1. nevus (benign tumor on skin)

This word is mainly known to and thus used by the medical professionals.

• luomi, syntymämerkki (common language terms)

• suvena

naevus m (plural naevi)

1. Alternative form of nævus

• “naevus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• gnaevus

For gnaevus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁iwós (“native”), from *ǵenh₁- (“to beget”). Probable doublet of Gnaeus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnae̯.u̯us/, [ˈnäe̯u̯ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈne.vus/, [ˈnɛːvus]

naevus m (genitive naevī); second declension

1. birthmark
2. mole (on the body)

Second-declension noun.

• naevius, Naevius

• “naevus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “naevus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• naevus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.