Meanings
- hypercorrectpluralplural of nexus
Origin
- Latinnexus
- Englishnexi
From nex(us) + -i; erroneously formed by treating Latin nexus as a masculine noun of the second declension, in which, in the nominative case, the singular form ends in -us and the plural form in -i.
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nexi. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nexi
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