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nugas

nugas is a Latin form of nugae, meaning “trifles, nonsense”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 69 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Letters to Atticus 6.3.5: … iam in Appi negotio quantum tribuerim Bruto dici vix potest. quid est igitur quod laborem? amicos habet meras nugas, Matinium, Scaptium. qui quia non habuit a me turmas equitum quibus Cyprum vexaret, ut ante me fecerat, forta …

Plautus, Amphitruo 2.1.604: Quas, malum, nugás? satin tu sanus es?

Plautus, Captivi 3.4.612b: Nugas. ludificabitur,

All forms of nugae (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.