Nugaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

nūga f (genitive nūgae); first declension

1. (New Latin) singular of nūgae (“jests, trifles”)
   • 1588, Giordano Bruno, Camoeracensis Acrotismus, article 53:

     […] hac nuga, oblitus, non utitur ubi nobilior coeli pars illi sit sub zodiaco […]

     […] he does not make use of this trifle—forgotten!—when the nobler part of the sky should be there under the zodiac […]

   • 1775, Theophan Prokopovich, Christiana Orthodoxa Theologia […], volume 5, page 27:

     Profecto enim magna est haec nuga.

     For this trifle is actually something great.