nidus

Borrowed from Latin nīdus (“nest”). Doublet of nye and nest.

• Rhymes: -aɪdəs

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.

• Dinus, Indus, Indus., indus.

From Proto-Italic *nizdos, from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós (“nest”). Cognate with Sanskrit नीड (nīḍá), Old Armenian նիստ (nist), Old Church Slavonic гнѣздо (gnězdo), Old English nest (whence English nest).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈniː.dʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈniː.d̪us]

nīdus m (genitive nīdī); second declension

1. nest
2. dwelling for animals

Second-declension noun.

• nīdificō
• nīdifōrmis (New Latin, specific epithet)

• “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.