Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The dorsal part of the thoracic segment of an insect.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In entomology, the dorsal aspect of the thorax or of any thoracic segment. The notum is divided into pronotum, mesonotum, and metanotum.
Wiktionary
- n. zoology The back.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) The back.
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek. (Wiktionary)
- New Latin nōtum, from Greek nōton, back. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Quod esse non potest: quia sic idem esset notius et minus notum, ut patet in primo posteriorum.”
“Deux ace non possunt, et sixeinque solvere nolunt; Omnibus est notum quater tre solvere totum.”
“Ex occursu daemonum aliqui furore corripiuntur, et experientia notum est.”
“+ “Cuperem notum esse quod sim non opto ut sciatur qualis sim.””
“Aquinas regards each of the first practical principles as self-evident (per se notum: known through itself) and undeduced (primum and indemonstrabile).”
“Another of the same kind appears, ‘Aug. 7, 1779, Partem brachii dextri carpo proximum et cutem pectoris circa mamillam dextram rasi, ut notum fieret quanto temporis pili renovarentur.’”
“Lombardicis leucis: Geometrica autem leuca describitur, vt notum est, per hos versus.”
“De ouibus quidem, vt iam dictum est, et præcipuè suibus (cum illa prouincia sues non habeat) falsum: De canibus haud mirum, cum illis nec regum aulæ caruerint nec hodiè careant, vt nimis omnibus est notum.”
“Porrò id admirari, est præter authoritatem tantorum virorum, quibus Ætnæ incendium optimè notum erat, quæ, cùm secundum Plinium hybernis temporibus niualis sit, noctibus tamen, eodem teste, semper ardet.”
“Expeditissima san� per Orientem in Cathaium est nauigatio: et s鎝� miratus sum, eam foeliciter inchoatam, desertam fuisse, velis in occidentem translatis, postquam plus qu鄊 dimidium itineris vestri iam notum haberent.”
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