nexus
nexus, ūs, m. (necto), I) das Zusammenknüpfen, Zusammenschlingen, die Umschlingung, Verschlingung, Windung ,atomorum, Cic.: nodi, Plin.: brachiorum, Suet.: cuius nexum (V. des gordischen Knotens) si quis solvisset, Iustin.: serpens baculum nexibus ambit, Ov. – II) bildl.: A) im allg.: plerique legis nexus, die durch das Gesetz erzeugten Verwickelungen, [1152]Tac. ann. 3, 28: principia et nexus (Verkettungen, Verband) naturalium causarum, Tac. ann. 6, 22: u. so nexus causarum latentium (unbekannter Kausalnexus) et multo ante destinatarum, Curt. 5, 11 (31), 10. – B) insbes., als jurist. t. t., die Verbindlichkeit, 1) im engeren Sinne: a) Schuldverpflichtung, qui se nexu obligavit, Cic. – b) die durch nexum entstandene Schuldhörigkeit, nexum inibant, sie traten in das Verhältnis der Schuldhörigkeit, Liv.: nexu vincti, solche Leute, die infolge der Schuldhörigkeit dem Gläubiger als Schuldgefangene od. Schuldknechte anheimfielen, Liv.: nec civili nexu, sed communi lege naturae, Cic.: dah. übtr.,Attici proprium te esse mancipio et nexu, Cic. – 2) im weiteren Sinne, jede aus einer Obligation entstehende Verbindlichkeit, ICt.: a nexu pignoris res libera est, von der Verpfändung, ICt.
Quelle:
Karl Ernst Georges: Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch. Hannover 81918 (Nachdruck Darmstadt 1998), Band 2, Sp. 1152-1153.
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Lizenz:
Gemeinfrei
Perfect passive participle of nectō (“bind”).
Participle
nexus (feminine nexa, neuter nexum); first/second-declension participle
- bound, tied, fastened, connected, interwoven, having been bound.
- bound by obligation, obliged, made liable, pledged, having been obliged.
- (nominalized, masculine, Ancient Rome, law) debtors who, having failed to cover the security they owed to their creditor, were enslaved to them as bondsmen (the practice was abolished in 326 BC, see quotes)
- Coordinate term: nexum
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | nexus | nexa | nexum | nexī | nexae | nexa | |
| genitive | nexī | nexae | nexī | nexōrum | nexārum | nexōrum | |
| dative | nexō | nexae | nexō | nexīs | |||
| accusative | nexum | nexam | nexum | nexōs | nexās | nexa | |
| ablative | nexō | nexā | nexō | nexīs | |||
| vocative | nexe | nexa | nexum | nexī | nexae | nexa | |
Etymology 2
From nectō + -tus (forming action nouns).
Noun
nexus m (genitive nexūs); fourth declension
- (abstract) the act of binding, tying or fastening together
- Synonym: nexiō
- (concrete) something which binds; bond, joint, binding, fastening; nexus
- Synonym: iunctūra
- connection
- Synonym: nexilitās
- a personal obligation of a debtor
- a legal obligation
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | nexus | nexūs |
| genitive | nexūs | nexuum |
| dative | nexuī | nexibus |
| accusative | nexum | nexūs |
| ablative | nexū | nexibus |
| vocative | nexus | nexūs |