nec
ArapahoEdit
NounEdit
nec
AromanianEdit
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EtymologyEdit
From Latin necō. Compare Daco-Romanian îneca, înec.
VerbEdit
nec (past participle nicatã or nãcate)
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InterlinguaEdit
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EtymologyEdit
AdverbEdit
nec
- And not.
- Io non sape, nec vole sapere. ― I don't know, and I don't want to know.
- Neither, nor.
- Illo nec me place nec displace. ― It neither pleases me nor displeases me.
- And, or (following a "with no" or "without").
- Nos debe resister sin aqua nec alimento. ― We must resist with no water or food.
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
Apocopated form of neque.
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
nec (not comparable)
SynonymsEdit
- (not even): nē quidem
ConjunctionEdit
nec
SynonymsEdit
- (not even): nē quidem
Derived termsEdit
- nec ... nec (“neither ... nor”)
- nec nōn (“and also, not to mention”)
- nec ūnus (“not even one”)
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “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-RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
VerbEdit
nec
- I kill.
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Middle EnglishEdit
NounEdit
nec
- Alternative form of nekke