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名詞

nexum

1. A contract in early Ancient Rome in which the debtor pledged his own person as collateral should he default on his loan (thus risking becoming a slave to the creditor).

関連する語

• nexus

名詞

nexum n (genitive nexī); second declension

1. (Ancient Rome, law) a bond secured upon the personal liberty of the debtor after having failed to cover for an earlier security, which made him a slave (nexus) of his master creditor
   • 54 BCE – 51 BCE, Cicero, De re publica 2.59:

     Fuerat fortasse aliqua ratio maioribus nostris in illo aere alieno medendi, quae neque Solonem Atheniensem non longis temporibus ante fugerat, neque post aliquanto nostrum senatum, cum sunt propter unius libidinem omnia nexa civium liberata nectierque postea desitum, […]

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語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Participle

nexum

1. inflection of nexus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

名詞

nexum

1. accusative singular of nexus (substantive)

名詞

nexum

1. accusative singular of nexus (action noun)

参照

• “nexum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nexum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nexum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “nexum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nexum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin