necne

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnek.ne/, [ˈnɛknɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnek.ne/, [ˈnɛkne]

Conjunction

necne

1. or not
2. (with negative, usually following utrum) whether ("Nihil interest valeam necne." It matters not whether I am well [or not].)

References

• “necne”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “necne”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• necne in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• necne in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.