Nisus is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.
You can make 34 anagrams from letters in nisus (inssu).
1690-1700; Latin nīsus act of planting the feet, effort, equivalent to nīt(ī) to support or exert oneself + -tus suffix of v. action, with tt > s
The night was dark, but nisus could almost have found his way blindfolded through the familiar forest.
Even before them the nisus towards it, which has been noticed in the chapter before the last, is observable enough.
Youth sent with nisus to warn Æneas that his son was in danger, 374.
The daughter of nisus 1271 past by, the cautious mariner rejoices.
Cloridano and Medoro are nisus and Euryalus in modern dress.
nisus cries: 'Lend the gods this fervour to the soul, Euryalus?
No answer was returned, and nisus, who was leading, quickened his pace to gain the shelter of the forest.
But mythology comes in and attributes them all to a nisus for self-preservation.
And nisus said that he had somewhat to say, and that the matter pressed.
The youth, flying, became separated from nisus, and was captured by the enemy.