nemo

See also: Nemo and NEMO

English

Adjective

nemo (not comparable)

1. (broadcasting, dated) Acronym of not emanating from main office, i.e. broadcast from some remote location instead.
   • 1929, Popular Science, volume 115, number 4, page 153:

     In New York City alone, there are nearly three dozen of these "nemo" points from which speeches, music, and entertainment are broadcast regularly.

   • 1935, Alison Reppy, Air Law Review, volume 6, page 86:

     All "nemo" broadcasting, except entirely musical, would be abandoned. Stations would not risk broadcasting anything arising outside the studio, as there would be no editorial or censorship power.

Anagrams

• Emon, Mone, Nome, meno-, meon, mone, nome, omen

Interlingua

Pronoun

nemo

1. Not any person: nobody, no one. Synonym: necuno.

Latin

Etymology

Contraction of the Old Latin phrase ne hemō (“no man”) (Classical ne homō). Compare praeda for praehenda.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈneː.moː/, [ˈneːmoː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈne.mo/, [ˈnɛːmo]

• Audio (Classical)

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Pronoun

nēmō m or f (genitive nēminis)

1. nobody, no one, no man
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De brevitate vitae 15:

     Horum te mori nemo coget, omnes docebunt; horum nemo annos tuos conteret, suos tibi contribuet; nullius ex his sermo periculosus erit, nullius amicitia capitalis, nullius sumptuosa obseruatio.

     No one of these will force you to die, but all will teach you how to die; no one of these will wear out your years, but each will add his own years to yours; conversations with no one of these will bring you peril, the friendship of none will endanger your life, the courting of none will tax your purse.

   Quem nemo ferro potuit superare nec auro. ― Whom none could overcome with iron or gold.

   Amīcus omnibus, amīcus nemini. ― A friend to all, a friend to none.

   Vicinam neminem amo magis quam te. ― I love a neighbouring nobody more than you.

   Nemo, nisi sapiens, liber est. ― No one, unless he is wise, is free.

   Nemo ante mortem beatus. ― No one [can be called] happy before his death.

   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. ― No one is above the law.

   Nemo ex amoris vulnere sanus abit. ― No one walks away unscathed from the wound of love.

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	nēmō
Genitive	nēminis
Dative	nēminī
Accusative	nēminem
Ablative	nēmine
Vocative	nēmō

In Classical Latin, the suppletive genitive nūllīus and ablatives nūllō (masculine) and nūllā (feminine) are usually used instead of nēminis and nēmine. Plural forms (ordered by case as above: nēminēs, nēminum, nēminibus, nēminēs, nēminibus, nēminēs) also exist, but are rare, because these forms can only be translated accurately as 'no people', which is often rendered by other methods.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Alium enim cui illam commendem habeo neminem.

  Aperte adulantem nemo non videt, nisi.

• nēmine contradicente (“with no one speaking against”)
• nēmine discrepante (“with no one speaking against”)
• nēminem captivabimus (“We shall not arrest anyone”)
• nēminem captivabimus nisi iure victum (“We shall not arrest anyone without a court verdict”)
• nemo alter/nemo alius (“no one else”)
• nemo non (“everybody, every one, all”)
• nemo quisquam (“no one at all”)

  Nemo unus contra ire ausus est.

• nemo unus (“no one”)
• nonnemo/non nemo (“many a one, some”)

  Video de istis abesse non neminem.

Descendants

• Italian: nimo
• Romanian: nimeni
• Sardinian: nemos

References

• “nemo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nemo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nemo 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)
• nemo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• nēmō in Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar. Boston & London: Ginn, 1903.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • Pericles, the greatest man of his day: Pericles, quo nemo tum fuit clarior
    
  • no man of learning: nemo doctus
    
  • no one with any pretence to education: nemo mediocriter doctus
    
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • Pericles, the greatest man of his day: Pericles, quo nemo tum fuit clarior
    
  • no man of learning: nemo doctus
    
  • no one with any pretence to education: nemo mediocriter doctus
    

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• nijȇmo (Ijekavian)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nêːmo/
• Hyphenation: ne‧mo

Adverb

nȇmo (Cyrillic spelling не̑мо)

1. mutely, dumbly

Adjective

nemo

1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular of nem