different between nard vs nardus

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /n??d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /n??d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English narde, from Old French narde, Latin nardus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (nárdos), from Phoenician [Term?], Sanskrit ??? (nálada, “Indian narde”). Doublet of nardus.

Noun

nard (countable and uncountable, plural nards)

1. Nardostachys jatamansi, a flowering plant of the valerian family that grows in the Himalayas, used as a perfume, an incense, a sedative, and an herbal medicine.
2. A fragrant oil from the plant, formerly much prized.
3. American spikenard (Aralia racemosa), a North American perennial herb with an aromatic root.

Synonyms

• nardus (obsolete)
• (Nardostachys jatamansi): nardin, muskroot

Derived terms

• spikenard

References

• nard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Nardostachys jatamansi on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Nardostachys+jatamansi at The Plant List
• nard at OneLook Dictionary Search
• nard, in Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, 1987.

Etymology 2

Alteration of nuts (“testicles”) or nads (“gonads”).

Noun

nard (plural nards)

1. (US, 1980s, slang, usually in the plural) Testicles.

   The soccer ball hit me right in the nards!

Synonyms

• (testicles): balls, nuts

Anagrams

• -andr-, DNAR, DNRA, RAND, Rand, andr-, darn, rDNA, rand, rdna

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin nardus (“spikenard”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?na?t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?nart/

Noun

nard m (plural nards)

1. tuberose (Agave amica)

Further reading

• “nard” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From Latin nardus.

Noun

nard m (plural nards)

1. (botany) matgrass (Nardus)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “nard” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “nard” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (nárdos), from Phoenician, from Sanskrit ??? (nálada, “Indian narde”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nârd/

Noun

n?rd m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. nard (plant or oil)

References

• “nard” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Volapük

Noun

nard (nominative plural nards)

1. valerian

Declension

English

Etymology

From Latin nardus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (nárdos).

Noun

nardus (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The ointment nard.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, John XII:

     Then toke Mary a pounde off oyntment called nardus, perfecte and precious, and anoynted Jesus fete, and wept his fete with her heer, and all the housse smelled off the savre off the oyntment.

2. (obsolete) The plant nard.
3. Matgrass (Nardus spp.).

Anagrams

• Raunds, Sundar, sandur

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch nardus (also narde from Old French narde), a borrowing from Latin nardus.

Pronunciation

Noun

nardus c (uncountable)

1. nard (plant)
2. nard (oil, fragrance)

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?rdus/, [?n?rdus?]
• Rhymes: -?rdus
• Syllabification: nar?dus

Noun

nardus

1. nard, spikenard (oil, fragrance, from Nardostachys jatamansi)
2. nard, spikenard (Nardostachys jatamansi)

Declension

Gothic

Romanization

nardus

1. Romanization of ????????????????????????

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (nárdos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?nar.dus/, [?närd??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?nar.dus/, [?n?rd?us]

Noun

nardus f (genitive nard?); second declension

1. The ointment nard
2. The plant nard

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? Catalan: nard
• Italian: nardo
• ? Middle Dutch: nardus
  • Dutch: nardus
• Old French: narde
  • French: nard
  • ? Middle Dutch: narde
  • ? Middle English: narde
    • English: nard
• Spanish: nardo

References

• nardus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nardus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nardus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• nardus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette