nasutus

nasuttaa +‎ -us

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑsutus/, [ˈnɑs̠ut̪us̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑsutus
• Syllabification^(key): na‧su‧tus

nasutus

1. the act of hazing first-year high school students in a nasujaiset event

From nāsus (“nose”) +‎ -ūtus (adjective-forming suffix). Found in Post-Augustan writers.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /naːˈsuː.tus/, [näːˈs̠uːt̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /naˈsu.tus/, [näˈs̬uːt̪us]

nāsūtus (feminine nāsūta, neuter nāsūtum, adverb nāsūtē); first/second-declension adjective

1. big-nosed; that has a large nose
2. (figuratively) satirical, sagacious, witty
   • 38 CE – 104 CE, Martial, 13 2:

     Nasutus sis usque licet, sis denique nasus,
     Quantum noluerat ferre rogatus Atlans,
     Et possis ipsum tu deridere Latinum:
     Non potes in nugas dicere plura meas,
     Ipse ego quam dixi.

     You're allowed to be keen-nosed, or in a nutshell to be a nose, to the point Atlas himself, if asked, would be unwilling to carry you. You can even surpass Latinus [the pantomime] himself in wit, but you can't attack my trifles more than I have myself.

   • 1499, Erasmus, Letter to Faustus Andrelinus, lauded poet :

     Nos in Anglia nonnihil promovimus. […] Tu quoque, si sapis, huc advolabis. Quid ita te iuvat hominem tam nasutum inter merdas Gallicas consenescere? Sed retinet te tua podagra; ut ea te salvo pereat male.

     We have made some progress in England. […] You, too, if you're wise, will fly your way here. What could please you, a man of such wit, about growing old in French shit? But your toe gout stops you; I hope that it dies a bad death and that you get better.

First/second-declension adjective.

• nāsūtē

• nāsus

• Italian: nasuto
• Romanian: năsut

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