nasal

Etymology

From French nasal, from Latin nasalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈneɪzəl/
• Rhymes: -eɪzəl

Adjective

nasal (comparative more nasal, superlative most nasal)

1. (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion
   • 2013 March 1, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 2, page 98:

     Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.

2. (phonetics) Having a sound imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng; characterized by resonance in the nasal passage

   a nasal vowel

   a nasal utterance.

Noun

nasal (plural nasals)

1. (medicine, archaic) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
2. (phonetics) A vowel or consonant (such as [m] or [n]) articulated with air flowing through the nose.
3. (now historical) Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
   • 1909, Charles Henry Ashdown, European Arms & Armor, page 78,

     The nasal continued in use until about 1140, when it was generally discarded, but isolated examples may be found in every succeeding century down to the seventeenth.

   • 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 463:

     Rorge had donned a black halfhelm with a broad iron nasal that made it hard to see that he did not have a nose.

4. (anatomy) One of the nasal bones.
5. (zoology) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.

Anagrams

• Alans, Anals, alans, anals, nalas

Adjective

nasal (epicene, plural nasales)

1. nasal

Adjective

nasal (masculine and feminine plural nasals)

1. nasal

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin nāsālis, from Latin nāsus (“nose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.zal/

Adjective

nasal (feminine singular nasale, masculine plural nasaux, feminine plural nasales)

1. nasal
2. (phonetics, phonology) nasal

Further reading

• “nasal” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Adjective

nasal m, f (plural nasais)

1. nasal

Etymology

From Latin nasalis

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naˈzaːl/

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Adjective

nasal

1. nasal

Further reading

• nasal in Duden online

Etymology

From Latin nasalis.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /nɐˈzaɫ/

Adjective

nasal m, f (plural nasais, not comparable)

1. nasal

Noun

nasal f (plural nasais)

1. nasal consonant

Noun

nasal m (plural nasais)

1. nasal bone

Etymology

From Late Latin nasalis, from Latin nasus.

Adjective

nasal (plural nasales)

1. nasal

Noun

nasal f (plural nasales)

1. nasal, nasal consonant