different between tegus vs negus

English

Noun

tegus

1. plural of tegu

Anagrams

• Guest, guest

Esperanto

Verb

tegus

1. conditional of tegi

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ni???s/

Etymology 1

Named from Colonel Francis Negus (died 1732), its creator.

Noun

negus (countable and uncountable, plural neguses)

1. A drink made of wine, often port, mixed with hot water, oranges or lemons, spices and sugar.
   • 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, page 177 ?ISBN

     And when he got home he had a glass of hot negus in his wife's sitting-room, and read the last number of the “Little Dorrit” of the day with great inward satisfaction.

   • 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter VII, Section vi

     Esther began […] to cry. But when the fire had been lit specially to warm her chilled limbs and Adela had plied her with hot negus she began to feel rather a heroine.

   • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 258:

     ‘I could sure use a cup of negus and maybe some hot soup,’ he sniffs.

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Amharic ??? (n?gu?, “king”).

Noun

negus (plural neguses)

1. (historical) A ruler of Ethiopia or of a province of Ethiopia; specifically, the supreme ruler of Ethiopia before 1974.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 240:

     It was a Syrian merchant, Frumentius, who is credited with converting Ezana, the Negus (king or emperor) of the powerful northern Ethiopian state of Aksum.

Translations

Anagrams

• genus

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Amharic ??? (n?gu?, “king”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?.?us/
• Hyphenation: nè?gus

Noun

negus m (invariable)

1. (historical) Title of the highest grade in the hierarchy of the Ethiopian Empire; Negus

Derived terms

• negussita

See also

• ras

Polish

Etymology

From Amharic ??? (n?gu?, “king”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?.?us/

Noun

negus m pers

1. (historical) negus (supreme Ethiopian ruler)

Declension

Further reading

• negus in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• negus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Amharic ??? (n?gu?).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?n?.?us/

Noun

negus m (plural neguses)

1. (historical) Negus (supreme Ethiopian ruler)

Spanish

Noun

negus m (plural neguses)

1. (historical) Negus (supreme Ethiopian ruler)