nexus

From Latin nexus (“connection, nexus; act of binding, tying or fastening together; something which binds, binding, bond, fastening, joint; legal obligation”), from nectō (“to attach, bind, connect, fasten, tie; to interweave; to relate; to unite; to bind by obligation, make liable, oblige; to compose, contrive, devise, produce”) + -tus (suffix forming verbal nouns).[1]

• Singular:
  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnɛksəs/

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  • Rhymes: -ɛksəs
• Plural (nexus, nexūs, nexûs):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnɛksuːs/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnɛksus/
• Hyphenation: nex‧us

nexus (countable and uncountable, plural nexuses or nexusses or (rare) nexus)

1. A form or state of connection.

   Synonyms: bond, junction, link, tie; see also Thesaurus:junction, Thesaurus:link

   1. (Canada, US, finance, law) The relationship between a vendor and a jurisdiction for the purpose of taxation, established for example by the vendor operating a physical store in that jurisdiction.
2. A connected group; a network, a web.
   • 2023 May 14, Panarat Thepgumpanat, Panu Wongcha-um, “Thailand's opposition opens up big election lead as army parties slide”, in Reuters‎:

     Sunday's election pits Move Forward and the billionaire Shinawatra family's Pheu Thai against ruling parties backed by a nexus of old money, conservatives and generals with influence over key institutions involved in two decades of upheaval in Southeast Asia's second-biggest economy.

3. A centre or focus of something.

   Synonyms: hub, junction

4. (grammar) In the work of the Danish linguist Otto Jespersen (1860–1943): a group of words expressing two concepts in one unit (such as a clause or sentence).
5. (Ancient Rome, law, historical) A person who had contracted a nexum or obligation of such a kind that, if they failed to pay, their creditor could compel them to work as a servant until the debt was paid; an indentured servant.

The Latin plural form (written nexūs or nexûs) is sometimes used in academic discussions of process philosophy.

• nexal

• nexus grammar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• nexus (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• UN*Xes, unsex

Perfect passive participle of nectō (“bind”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnek.sus/, [ˈnɛks̠ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnek.sus/, [ˈnɛksus]

nexus (feminine nexa, neuter nexum); first/second-declension participle

1. bound, tied, fastened, connected, interwoven, having been bound.
2. bound by obligation, obliged, made liable, pledged, having been obliged.

First/second-declension adjective.

nexus m (genitive nexūs); fourth declension

1. the act of binding, tying or fastening together
2. something which binds; bond, joint, binding, fastening; connection; nexus
3. a personal obligation of a debtor
4. a legal obligation

Fourth-declension noun.

• (joint): iunctūra
• (fastening): nexiō
• (connection): nexilitās

• “nexus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nexus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nexus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • concatenation, interdependence of causes: rerum causae aliae ex aliis nexae
    
  • systematic succession, concatenation: continuatio seriesque rerum, ut alia ex alia nexa et omnes inter se aptae colligataeque sint (N. D. 1. 4. 9)
    
  • the connection: sententiae inter se nexae
    
  • the connection: contextus orationis (not nexus, conexus sententiarum)
    
• nexus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016