nec unus

Latin

Etymology

From nec +‎ ūnus. Emerges as an emphatic combination in Late Latin from at least the fifth century CE.

Adjective

nec ūnus (feminine nec ūna, neuter nec ūnum); indeclinable portion with a first/second-declension adjective (Late Latin)

1. (This entry is a descendant hub.) not even one

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • >? Romanian: niciun
• Dalmatian:
  • nenčoin
• North Italian:
  • Istriot: ningun
  • Lombard: negun, nigun

    Bergamasco: nehu, nigu

  • Piedmontese: niun, nengun
  • Old Venetian: negun
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: nion, nengun, negun

    Valdôtain: gneun

  • Old French: neisun
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: ningú, dingú

    Balearic: nengú, digú

    Majorcan: negú, nigú

    Northwestern: nengú

    Valencian: nengú, degú, digú

  • Occitan: degun (all dialects)

    Auvernhat: dengun

    Gascon: digun

    Lengadocian: digun

• Rhaeto-Romance:

  • Ladin: degun

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese:

    Central: dingun

    Ribagorçan: dengú, degú, digú

    Western: ningun, nengún

  • Asturian: dengún, denguno, dingún, dinguno, nengún, nenguno
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: niun, niũu, neũu, neun, ningũu, ningũu, ningun, nengũu, nengun, nen (h)ũu, nin (h)ũu
    • Fala: niñún
    • Galician: nengún, ningún, neñún, niñún
    • Portuguese: nenhum; nengum (northern)
  • Spanish: ningún, ninguno

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1597: “non lo trovo in nessun luogo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 1665: “personne ne me croit” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “nĕc ūnus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 435
• Misión lingüística en el Alto Aragón - Joseph Saroïhandy