nardus

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

nardus (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The ointment nard.
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, John:

     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.).

• Raunds, Sundar, sandur

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

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nardus c (uncountable)

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

From Latin nardus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑrdus/, [ˈnɑ̝rdus̠]
• Rhymes: -ɑrdus
• Syllabification^(key): nar‧dus

nardus

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

nardus

1. Romanization of 𐌽𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌿𐍃

From Ancient Greek νάρδος (nárdos).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnar.dus/, [ˈnärd̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnar.dus/, [ˈnärd̪us]

nardus f (genitive nardī); second declension

1. The ointment nard
2. The plant nard

Second-declension noun.

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

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• nardus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

nardus

1. Alternative form of narde