different between nidify vs nidus

English

Etymology

From Latin n?dific? (“build a nest”), from n?dus (“nest”) + faci? (“make, do”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?n?d.??fa?/

Verb

nidify (third-person singular simple present nidifies, present participle nidifying, simple past and past participle nidified)

1. (zoology) To make a nest.
   • 1854, Albany Hancock, "Observations on the Nidification of Gasterosteus aculeatus and Gasterosteus spinachia", The Zoologist 12: 4409

     It is only within the last few years that naturalists have clearly determined that some species of fish make nests for the reception of their spawn […] Five or six kinds are now ascertained to nidify; and of these, two belong to the genus Gasterosteus […]

   • 1997, Gert-Jan van Dijk, Ainoi, Logoi, Mythoi: Fables in Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greek Culture, page 206

     […] it may originally have explained why dung beetles do not appear when eagles nidify; […]

Synonyms

• nidificate, nidulate

Related terms

and see: nidifugous

Translations

Anagrams

• indify

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin n?dus (“nest”). Doublet of nye and nest.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?d?s

Noun

nidus (plural nidi or niduses)

1. An aggregate of neurons.
2. A nest for insects or small animals.
3. A place of infection in an organism.
4. An origin (originating point) for a phenomenon.

Related terms

Anagrams

• Dinus, Indus, Indus., indus.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *nizdos, from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós (“nest”). Cognates include Sanskrit ??? (n??á), Old Armenian ???? (nist), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (gn?zdo) and Old English nest (English nest).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ni?.dus/, [?ni?d??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ni.dus/, [?ni?d?us]

Noun

n?dus m (genitive n?d?); second declension

1. nest
2. dwelling for animals

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• n?dific?
• n?dif?rmis (New Latin, specific epithet)

Descendants

References

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