num
EnglishEdit
NounEdit
num (plural nums)
Alternative formsEdit
InterjectionEdit
num
- (colloquial) Used to denote eating, or enjoyment of eating.
Alternative formsEdit
Related termsEdit
AnagramsEdit
AfarEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
núm m
PronounEdit
núm
DeclensionEdit
Declension of núm | ||||||||||||||||||
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absolutive | núm | |||||||||||||||||
predicative | númu | |||||||||||||||||
subjective | núm | |||||||||||||||||
genitive | numtín | |||||||||||||||||
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Derived termsEdit
- (diminutive): numóyta
See alsoEdit
- labhá (“men”)
ReferencesEdit
- E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “num”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”).
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
num (not comparable)
- now (only in the phrase etiam num)
- (in a direct question) a particle usually expecting a negation
- Num Sparta īnsula est? — Nōn est īnsula.
- Sparta's not an island, is it? — It's not an island.
- Num Sparta īnsula est? — Nōn est īnsula.
- (in an indirect question) whether
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “num”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- “num”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- num in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- morning, noon, evening, night: tempus matutīnum, meridianum, vespertinum, nocturnum
- morning, noon, evening, night: tempus matutīnum, meridianum, vespertinum, nocturnum
LivonianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Akin to Finnish nummi.
NounEdit
num
Old FrenchEdit
NounEdit
num m (oblique plural nuns, nominative singular nuns, nominative plural num)
- Alternative form of nom
PortugueseEdit
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Rhymes: -ũ
- Hyphenation: num
Etymology 1Edit
ContractionEdit
num m (plural nuns, feminine numa, feminine plural numas)
- Contraction of em um (“in a”).
- 2003, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix] (Harry Potter; 5), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 400:
- Não devia estar num quarto particular?
- Shouldn't he be in a private room?
Usage notesEdit
The contraction is never obligatory and sometimes avoided in formal written Brazilian Portuguese.[1]
QuotationsEdit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:num.
Etymology 2Edit
AdverbEdit
num (not comparable)
- Eye dialect spelling of não.
- 1871, Júlio César Machado, Da Loucura e das Manias em Portugal, Estudos Humoristicos, Livraria de A. M. Pereira, page 18:
- Eu num estou doido […] !
- I'm not crazy […] !
- Eu num estou doido […] !
- 1871, Júlio César Machado, Da Loucura e das Manias em Portugal, Estudos Humoristicos, Livraria de A. M. Pereira, page 18:
QuotationsEdit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:num.
ReferencesEdit
RomanschEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- nom (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)
EtymologyEdit
From Latin nōmen, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”).
NounEdit
num m (plural nums)
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) name
SumerianEdit
RomanizationEdit
num
- Romanization of 𒉏 (num)