neco

See also: něco

Latin

Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *neḱ- (“perish, disappear”); see also Middle Welsh angheu (“death”), Breton ankou, Old Irish éc, Latin noxius (“harmful”), Latin noceō (“I hurt, harm”), Latin nex (“murder, violent death”) (as opposed to mors), Ancient Greek νέκυς (nékus, “a dead body”) and νεκρός (nekrós, “dead”), Old Persian 𐎻𐎴𐎰𐎹𐎫𐎹 (vi-nathayatiy, “he injures”), Avestan 𐬥𐬀𐬯𐬌𐬌𐬈𐬌𐬙𐬌 (nasiieⁱti, “disappears”), 𐬥𐬀𐬯𐬎 (nasu-, “corpse”), Sanskrit नश्यति (naśyati, “disappear, perish”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈne.koː/, [ˈnɛkoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈne.ko/, [ˈnɛːko]
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Verb

1. I kill, murder, especially without physical wounding such as by poison or hunger
2. (figuratively) I thwart, check

Derived terms

• ēnecō
• internecō
• necātor
• necātrix
• pernecō

Descendants

• Aromanian: nec, nicari
• Anglo-Norman: neier
  • English: noy
• Catalan: negar
• French: noyer
• Italian: annegare

• Norman: n'yer
• Old French: noiier, noier
• Portuguese: anegar
• Romanian: îneca, înecare, neca
• Spanish: anegar

References

• “neco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “neco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• neco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to perish in the flames: igni cremari, necari
    
  • to be starved to death (as punishment): fame necari
    
• “neco”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “neco”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray