nonnullus

nonnullus

Latin

Alternative forms

  • nōn nūllus

Etymology

Etymology tree
Latin nōn
Proto-Indo-European *ís?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Italic *oinosder.
Proto-Italic *noinolos
Latin nūllus
Latin nōnnūllus

    From nōn (“not”) + nūllus (“no one, no, not any”).

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    nōnnūllus (feminine nōnnūlla, neuter nōnnūllum); first/second-declension adjective (pronominal declension)

    1. some, several, a few
    2. nonzero (Can we verify(+) this sense?)

    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective (pronominal declension).

    singular plural
    masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
    nominative nōnnūllus nōnnūlla nōnnūllum nōnnūllī nōnnūllae nōnnūlla
    genitive nōnnūllī̆us nōnnūllōrum nōnnūllārum nōnnūllōrum
    dative nōnnūllī nōnnūllīs
    accusative nōnnūllum nōnnūllam nōnnūllum nōnnūllōs nōnnūllās nōnnūlla
    ablative nōnnūllō nōnnūllā nōnnūllō nōnnūllīs
    vocative nōnnūlle nōnnūlla nōnnūllum nōnnūllī nōnnūllae nōnnūlla

    Descendants

    • Italo-Romance: (from the neuter plural)
      • Italian: nonnulla m

    References

    • “nonnullus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “nonnullus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “nonnullus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • I wish to say a few words in preface: nonnulla praedīcam
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