ullus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *oinelos, diminutive of Proto-Italic *oinos (“one”), akin to Latin ūnus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈuːl.lus/, [ˈuːlːʲʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈul.lus/, [ˈulːus]
Adjective edit
ūllus (feminine ūlla, neuter ūllum); first/second-declension adjective (pronominal)
- (chiefly in the negative) any
- Lēctiō sine ūllā dēlectātiōne.
- A reading without any enjoyment.
- Lēctiō sine ūllā dēlectātiōne.
Usage notes edit
- Ūllus is usually found in negative sentences. It corresponds to aliquis (“some”) in affirmations.
- Ūllus (“any”) is typically an adjective and quisquam (“any(one)”) a pronoun, but the opposite usages are also found. In particular, with masculine nouns that referred to persons, Cicero seems to have preferred quisquam over ūllus in the nominative, genitive, and dative cases (e.g. quisquam scrīptor, cuiusquam scrīptōris, cuiquam scrīptōrī), and used both quemquam and ūllum in the accusative (e.g. quemquam scrīptōrem, ūllum scrīptōrem).[1]
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective (pronominal).
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | ūllus | ūlla | ūllum | ūllī | ūllae | ūlla | |
Genitive | ūllī̆us ūllī |
ūllōrum | ūllārum | ūllōrum | |||
Dative | ūllī | ūllīs | |||||
Accusative | ūllum | ūllam | ūllum | ūllōs | ūllās | ūlla | |
Ablative | ūllō | ūllā | ūllō | ūllīs | |||
Vocative | ūlle | ūlla | ūllum | ūllī | ūllae | ūlla |
The declension ūllī in the genitive singular is rare but attested in Old Latin texts such as Truculentus by Plautus
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
References edit
Further reading edit
- “ullus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ullus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ullus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- without doubt, beyond all doubt: sine dubio (not sine ullo dubio)
- without any hesitation; without the least scruple: sine ulla dubitatione
- indisputably; incontestably: sine (ulla) controversia
- without doubt, beyond all doubt: sine dubio (not sine ullo dubio)
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
ullus f (definite singular ullusa, indefinite plural ullus or ullyser, definite plural ullusene or ullysene)
- Alternative spelling of ull-lus