nisus
/ˈnʌɪsəs/Now chiefly Philosophy
noun
Effort, endeavour; (now) especially impulse, tendency.
Origin
Late 17th century; earliest use found in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. From classical Latin nīsus effort, endeavour, tendency from nītī to strive, to exert oneself + -tus, suffix forming verbal nouns.
- Tridentine
- Tridentine mass
- triduum
- tridymite
- tried
- tried and tested (or tried and trusted or tried and true)
- triene
- triennial
- triennially
- epigastric
- epigastrium
- epigeal
- epigene
- epigenesis
- epigenesist
- epigenetic
- epigenetically
- epigeneticist
- epigenetics
- epiglottal
- epiglottic
- epiglottis
- epigone
- epigram
- epigrammatic