nemo
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Interlingua [edit]
Pronoun [edit]
nemo
Latin [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Contraction of the earlier phrase *ne hemō (“no man”), from ne (“not”) + Old Latin hemō (“man”) (Classical homō). Compare praeda for praehenda.
Pronunciation [edit]
Pronoun [edit]
nēmō m and f
- nobody, no one, no man
- Quem nemo ferro potuit superare nec auro.
- Amīcus omnibus, amīcus nemini.
- Vicinam neminem amo magis quam te.
- I love a neighbouring nobody more than you.
- Nemo, nisi sapiens, liber est.
- Nemo ante mortem beatus.
- Nemo non formosus filius matri.
- No one fails to be a beautiful son for his mother.
- Absque sanitate nemo felix.
- Without health, no one [is] happy.
- Nemo sine sapientia, beatus est.
- No man without wisdom, is happy.
- Nemo cum sarcinis enatat.
- No one swims away with his bundles/belongings.
- Nemo est supra leges.
- Nemo ex amoris vulnere sanus abit.
Inflection [edit]
Irregular declension.
| Case \ # | m or f |
|---|---|
| nominative | nēmō |
| genitive | nēminis |
| dative | nēminī |
| accusative | nēminem |
| ablative | nēmine |
| vocative | nēmō |
- Note: In Classical Latin, nūllīus was substituted for the genitive and nūllō/nūllā for ablative, where nūllō is masculine whereas nūllā is feminine.
Derived terms [edit]
- nonnemo/non nemo (many a one, some)
- Video de istis abesse non neminem.
- nemo non (everybody, every one, all)
- Aperte adulantem nemo non videt, nisi.
- nemo unus (no one)
- Nemo unus contra ire ausus est.
- nemo quisquam (no one at all)
- nemo alter/nemo alius (no one else)
- Alium enim cui illam commendem habeo neminem.
Descendants [edit]
- Romanian: nimeni
Serbo-Croatian [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
- (Ijekavian): nijȇmo
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /nêːmo/
- Hyphenation: ne‧mo
Adverb [edit]
nȇmo (Cyrillic spelling не̑мо)
