nec
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nec
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Etymology edit
From Latin necō. Compare Daco-Romanian îneca, înec.
Verb edit
nec first-singular present indicative (past participle nicatã or nãcate)
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nec
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Apocopated form of neque.
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nec (not comparable)
- nor
- 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.10–14:
- Nūllus adhūc mundō praebēbat lūmina Tītān,
nec nova crēscendō reparābat cornua Phoebē,
nec circumfūsō pendēbat in āere tellūs
ponderibus lībrāta suīs, nec bracchia longō
margine terrārum porrēxerat Amphītrītē; […]- No Titan [Sun] as yet provided light to the world, nor did Phoebe [the Moon] repair new horns in waxing, nor did the Earth hang in the surrounding air, balanced by its own weights, nor had Amphitrite [the sea] stretched her arms down the far borders of the lands; […]
- Nūllus adhūc mundō praebēbat lūmina Tītān,
- and not, not
- neither
- not even
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- (not even): nē quidem
Conjunction edit
nec
Synonyms edit
- (not even): nē quidem
Derived terms edit
- nec ... nec (“neither ... nor”)
- nec nōn (“and also, not to mention”)
- nec ūnus (“not even one”)
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References edit
- “nec”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nec”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nec in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a thing has happened contrary to my expectation: aliquid mihi nec opinanti, insperanti accidit
- no wonder: nec mirum, minime mirum (id quidem), quid mirum?
- a thing has happened contrary to my expectation: aliquid mihi nec opinanti, insperanti accidit
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
Megleno-Romanian edit
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nec
- I kill.
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nec
- Alternative form of nekke