nacca

Latin

Uncertain. Possibly a loan from hypothetical Ancient Greek *νάκτης, *νάκται (*náktēs, *náktai), an agent noun from νάσσω (nássō, “to squeeze, press together”).^[1] Compare νάκος (nákos, “fleece”).^[2]^[3] Some assume instead that it originates from Etruscan.^[4]^[5]

nacca m (genitive naccae); first declension

^ “nacca”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “nacca”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎^[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 428
^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 168
^ Baldi, Philip (2002) The Foundations of Latin, page 166
^ Ostler, Nicholas (2007) Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin, page 325, page 37

Alternative scripts

nacca n

Declension table of "nacca" (neuter)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	naccaṃ	naccāni
Accusative (second)	naccaṃ	naccāni
Instrumental (third)	naccena	naccehi or naccebhi
Dative (fourth)	naccassa or naccāya or naccatthaṃ	naccānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	naccasmā or naccamhā or naccā	naccehi or naccebhi
Genitive (sixth)	naccassa	naccānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	naccasmiṃ or naccamhi or nacce	naccesu
Vocative (calling)	nacca	naccāni

Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “nacca”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead