alcuno

Interlingua

Alternative forms

• alicuno

Pronoun

alcuno

1. Some person: somebody, someone.

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *alicūnum, from Classical Latin aliquem + unum.^[1]

Cognate with French aucun, Spanish alguno, Galician algún, Portuguese algum.

Adjective

alcuno m (feminine alcuna, masculine plural alcuni, feminine plural alcune)

1. (chiefly in the plural) some, a few
2. (in negative phrases) none

References

1. ^ 2002, Giuseppe Patota, Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), Bologna: il Mulino, ISBN 88-15-08638-2, page p. 140:

Anagrams

• culona, lucano