numne

numne

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Latin num
Latin -ne
Latin numne

    From num + -ne.

    Pronunciation

    Adverb

    numne (not comparable)

    1. emphatic form of num (“a question particle usually expecting a negation”)
      Synonym: numnam

    References

    • “numne”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “numne”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “numne”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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