nutum

nutum is a Latin form of nutus, meaning “nod; command, will”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 58 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.31.12: … e, obsides nobilissimi cuiusque liberos poscere et in eos omnia exempla cruciatusque edere, si qua res non ad nutum aut ad voluntatem eius facta sit.

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 4.67: … Hector: Laétus sum laudári me abs te, páter, a laudató viro, aliter ille apud Trabeam: Léna deleníta argento nútum observabít meum, Quíd velim, quid stúdeam. adveniens dígito impellam iánuam, Fóres patebunt. de ínproviso Chr …

All forms of nutus (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.