nonus

nonus

Latin

Latin numbers (edit)
90
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9
10  → [a], [b]
    Cardinal: novem
    Ordinal: nōnus
    Adverbial: noviēs, noviēns
    Proportional: nōnuplus, nōncuplus, nōnecuplus, novemcuplus, novecuplus, novemplus, nocuplus, nuncuplus
    Multiplier: novemplex, nōncuplex, nōnuplex, novemcuplex
    Distributive: novēnus
    Fractional: nōnus

Etymology

    Inherited from Proto-Italic *nowənos. De Vaan suggests that *noweno- first contracted into *nouno-, which then was restored to *noweno-, which then itself contracted into nōnus.[1]

    Pronunciation

    Numeral

    nōnus (feminine nōna, neuter nōnum); first/second-declension numeral

    1. ninth
      Terra nōna.
      The ninth land.

    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective.

    singular plural
    masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
    nominative nōnus nōna nōnum nōnī nōnae nōna
    genitive nōnī nōnae nōnī nōnōrum nōnārum nōnōrum
    dative nōnō nōnae nōnō nōnīs
    accusative nōnum nōnam nōnum nōnōs nōnās nōna
    ablative nōnō nōnā nōnō nōnīs
    vocative nōne nōna nōnum nōnī nōnae nōna

    Descendants

    • Dutch: noen
    • Emilian: nòn
    • English: noon
    • German: Non f
    • Icelandic: nón
    • Irish: nóin
    • Italian: nono
    • Portuguese: nono
    • Spanish: nono
    • Aragonese: nueno, nono
    • Welsh: nawn

    References

    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “novem”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 415
    • nonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • nonus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • nonus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • (ambiguous) on the day after, which was September 5th: postridie qui fuit dies Non. Sept. (Nonarum Septembrium) (Att. 4. 1. 5)
    • nonus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
    • H. H. Mallinckrodt, Latijn Nederlands woordenboek (Aula n° 24), Utrecht-Antwerpen, Spectrum, 1959 [Latin - Dutch dictionary in Dutch]