negus
/ˈniːɡəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.26 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
An English surname of unknown derivation.
noun
Alternative form of negus (“Ethiopian ruler”).
Example Sentences
- "And when he got home he had a glass of hot negus in his wife's sitting-room, and read the last number of the “Little Dorrit” of the day with great inward satisfaction."
- "Esther began […] to cry. But when the fire had been lit specially to warm her chilled limbs and Adela had plied her with hot negus she began to feel rather a heroine."
- "‘I could sure use a cup of negus and maybe some hot soup,’ he sniffs."
- "Sir, the Negus of Ethiopia is here in person; and this is the day of our death, doe what you can to saue your selfe, for my part I meane here to die"
- "In the Abyssinian Language a King is call'd Negus. Their Monarch they stile Negus Negasta, which is as much as to say, King of Kings."
- "It was a Syrian merchant, Frumentius, who is credited with converting Ezana, the Negus (king or emperor) of the powerful northern Ethiopian state of Aksum."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: ንጉሥ