nor
TranslingualEdit
SymbolEdit
nor
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation): enPR: nô, IPA(key): /nɔː/
- (US) enPR: nôr, IPA(key): /nɔɹ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Homophone: gnaw (in non-rhotic accents)
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English nauther, from nother. Cognate with neither.
ConjunctionEdit
nor
- (literary) And... not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily following one).
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- I love your majesty / According to my bond, nor more nor less.
- 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act II:
- Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbased myself.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- Nor walk by moon, / Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
- 1825, Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman
- And, moreover, I had made my vow to preserve my rank unknown till the crusade should be accomplished; nor did I mention it […]
- 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
- Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink.
- Nor did I stop to think, but ran.
- They are happy, nor need we worry.
- A function word introducing each except the first term of a series, indicating none of them is true.
- 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
- The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them […] is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.
- I am neither hungry nor thirsty nor tired.
- Used to introduce a further negative statement.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
- The struggle didn't end, nor was it diminished.
- (UK, dialect) Than.
- 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner, London: Penguin Books, published 1967, page 131:
- 'I used to think, when you first come into these parts, as you were no better nor you should be.'
- 1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 92:
- I wouldn’t like to live here though, not after dark. Sooner you nor me.
- He's no better nor you.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
nor
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See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Etymology 1 (sense 2 above), reinterpreted as not + or or negation + or.
NounEdit
nor (plural nors)
- (logic, electronics) Alternative form of NOR
Coordinate termsEdit
AnagramsEdit
AromanianEdit
NounEdit
nor
- Alternative form of norã
BasqueEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Basque *nor, containing the interrogative prefix *no-.[1]
PronounEdit
nor
- (interrogative) who
- Nor da? ― Who is he/she?
- Ez nekien nor zinen. ― I didn't know who you were.
- Norentzat da opari hau? ― Who is this present for?
DeclensionEdit
Declension of Basque interrogative pronouns
Etymology 2Edit
From the interrogative pronoun.
AdjectiveEdit
nor (indeclinable)
- (grammatical term, used as a modifier) (of a verb) intransitive without a dative argument
- Nor aditzak euskarazko aditzik errezenak dira. ― In Basque, nor verbs are the easiest to learn.
ReferencesEdit
- ^ “no-” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk
Further readingEdit
CzechEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nor f
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Unclear, perhaps onomatopoeic, cf. brommen (“to do time”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nor (only as singular, with definite article: de nor)
- (informal) Jail, prison; imprisonment
- Synonyms: bajes, bak, gevangenis, lik
Megleno-RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin nubilum. Compare Romanian nor, Aromanian nior.
NounEdit
nor m
NormanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- nord (continental Normandy, Guernsey, Jersey)
EtymologyEdit
From Old French norht, north, nort (“north”), from Old English norþ (“north”), from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą (“north”), from Proto-Indo-European *ner- (“lower, bottom; to sink, shrivel”).
NounEdit
nor m (uncountable)
PolishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nor f
RomanianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- nour (regional, Moldova)
- noor (regional, Oltenia),
- nuor, nuvăr (regional, Banat)
- nuar (archaic, obsolete)
EtymologyEdit
From older nuar, nuăr, from Latin nūbilum, noun use of the neuter of the adjective nūbilus (“cloudy”), from Latin nūbēs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)newdʰ- (“to cover”). Compare Aromanian nior, Spanish nube, Italian nuvola, Friulian nûl, Portuguese nuvem, Catalan núvol.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
nor m (plural nori)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of nor
Derived termsEdit
SloveneEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
nȍr (comparative bȍlj nȍr, superlative nȁjbolj nȍr)
InflectionEdit
| Hard | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |
| nom. sing. | nòr | nôra | nôro |
| singular | |||
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |
| nominative | nòr ind nôri def |
nôra | nôro |
| genitive | nôrega | nôre | nôrega |
| dative | nôremu | nôri | nôremu |
| accusative | nominativeinan or genitiveanim |
nôro | nôro |
| locative | nôrem | nôri | nôrem |
| instrumental | nôrim | nôro | nôrim |
| dual | |||
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |
| nominative | nôra | nôri | nôri |
| genitive | nôrih | nôrih | nôrih |
| dative | nôrima | nôrima | nôrima |
| accusative | nôra | nôri | nôri |
| locative | nôrih | nôrih | nôrih |
| instrumental | nôrima | nôrima | nôrima |
| plural | |||
| masculine | feminine | neuter | |
| nominative | nôri | nôre | nôra |
| genitive | nôrih | nôrih | nôrih |
| dative | nôrim | nôrim | nôrim |
| accusative | nôre | nôre | nôra |
| locative | nôrih | nôrih | nôrih |
| instrumental | nôrimi | nôrimi | nôrimi |
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “nor”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
SwedishEdit
NounEdit
nor
AnagramsEdit
VepsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Related to Finnish nuora. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
NounEdit
nor
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection of nor (inflection type 6/kuva) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative sing. | nor | ||
| genitive sing. | noran | ||
| partitive sing. | norad | ||
| partitive plur. | norid | ||
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | nor | norad | |
| accusative | noran | norad | |
| genitive | noran | noriden | |
| partitive | norad | norid | |
| essive-instructive | noran | norin | |
| translative | noraks | norikš | |
| inessive | noras | noriš | |
| elative | noraspäi | norišpäi | |
| illative | noraha | norihe | |
| adessive | noral | noril | |
| ablative | noralpäi | norilpäi | |
| allative | norale | norile | |
| abessive | norata | norita | |
| comitative | noranke | noridenke | |
| prolative | noradme | noridme | |
| approximative I | noranno | noridenno | |
| approximative II | norannoks | noridennoks | |
| egressive | norannopäi | noridennopäi | |
| terminative I | norahasai | norihesai | |
| terminative II | noralesai | norilesai | |
| terminative III | norassai | — | |
| additive I | norahapäi | norihepäi | |
| additive II | noralepäi | norilepäi | |
YolaEdit
ConjunctionEdit
nor
- Alternative form of noor
- 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3:
- Mye thee friend ne're waant welcome, nor straayart comfoort.
- May thy friend ne'er want welcome, nor the stranger comfort.
ReferencesEdit
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 100