non

See also: nón, nőn, non-, and Non.

English

Pronunciation

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Adverb

non (not comparable)

1. Obsolete form of none.

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Asturian

Etymology

From Latin non.

Adverb

non

1. no

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Basque

Pronoun

non

1. where

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Chiricahua

Noun

non

1. Alternative spelling of nun

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Chuukese

Preposition

non

1. in

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔn

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Noun

non f (plural nonnen, diminutive nonnetje n)

1. nun

Synonyms

• zuster
• kloosterzuster

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Fala

Alternative forms

• nun

Etymology

From Old Portuguese non, from Latin nōn (“not”).

Adverb

non

1. not (negates the meaning of the modified verb)
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme II, Chapter 2: Recunquista:

     Non poemos analizar con pormenoris estis siglos, pero tampoco se debi toleral que, sin fundamentus, se poña en duda algo que a Historia documentá nos lega sobre nossa terra.

     We can’t thoroughly analyse these centuries, but one mustn’t tolerate that, unfoundedly, something documented history tells us about our land be questioned.

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French

Etymology

From Old French non, from Latin nōn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔ̃/

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• Homophones: nom, noms, nons

Adverb

non

1. no

Conjunction

non

1. not
   • 1869, Sully Prudhomme, “La Voie lactée”, in Les Solitudes:

     Êtes-vous toujours en prière ? / Êtes-vous des astres blessés ? / Car ce sont des pleurs de lumière, / Non des rayons, que vous versez.

     Are you still in prayer? / Are you hurt stars? / Because it is cries of light, / Not rays, that you pour.

Noun

non m (plural nons)

1. a no, a negative response

Interjection

non

1. no!

Derived terms

• non merci

Further reading

• “non” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Friulian

Etymology

From Latin nōmen, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

Noun

non m (plural nons)

1. name

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Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese non, from Latin nōn.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈnʊŋ/, /ˈnoŋ/

Adverb

non

1. no, not, not at all.
2. no (used to show disagreement or negation)
3. no (used to reinforce an affirmation as negation of the alternative - but it can be omitted without changing the meaning)

   Ás veces é mellor berrar que non calar

   Sometimes it is better to shout than to - keep quiet

4. no (reinforces a mandate in interrogative sentences)

Usage notes

Non usually contracts, in speech, with a following personal pronoun a, as, o, os, although this contraction is rarely shown in written Galician (either as nono, n'o, etc):

Non o queres? ("You don't want it?"): /nono'kɛs/ = /noː'kɛs/

Further reading

• “non” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
• “non” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.

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Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French nom (“name”)

Noun

non

1. name

Related terms

• onon

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Ido

Ido cardinal numbers

<  8	9	10  >
Cardinal : non     Ordinal : nonesma     Adverbial : nonfoye     Multiplier : nonopla     Fractional : nonima
Ido Wikipedia article on non

Etymology

From English nine, German neun, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥. In length from English nona-, French nona-, Italian nono, Spanish nono.

Numeral

non

1. nine (9)

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Interlingua

Adverb

non

1. not

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Istriot

Alternative forms

• nom

Etymology

From Latin nōmen. Compare Friulian non, Dalmatian naun.

Noun

non

1. name

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin nōn.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): [non]

Adverb

non

1. not
2. un-
3. don't

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Latin

Etymology

From Old Latin noenum, from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”) + *óynos (“one”) (= ne + ūnus). See also nē and nī.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /noːn/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /non/

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Particle

nōn (negative particle)

1. not

   Lingua Graeca est; potest nōn legī.

   It's Greek; it can not be read.

Usage notes

The particle nōn may be used to negate verbs, adjectives, nouns, or phrases.

Derived terms

• cūr nōn?
• non iam/non jam
• nōn intellegō
• nōn male
• non modo
• nonne
• nonnemo
• non quo
• nōn semper Sāturnālia erunt

 

Descendants

• Aromanian: nu
• Asturian: nun, ñun
• Catalan: no
• Dalmatian: na
• French: non, ne
• Friulian: no
• Galician: non
• Italian: no, non
• Lombard: nò
• Mirandese: nun

• Mozarabic: نونْ‎
• Occitan: non
• Portuguese: não
• Romanian: nu
• Romansch: na
• Sardinian: no, non, nu
• Sicilian: nun
• Spanish: no

References

• non in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• non in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• non in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • not to stir from one's place: loco or vestigio se non movere
    
  • to lose no time: tempus non amittere, perdere
    
  • to take no thought for the future: futura non cogitare, curare
    
  • I have not seen you for five years: quinque anni sunt or sextus annus est, cum te non vidi
    
  • on the day after, which was September 5th: postridie qui fuit dies Non. Sept. (Nonarum Septembrium) (Att. 4. 1. 5)
    
  • to-day the 5th of September; tomorrow September the 5th: hodie qui est dies Non. Sept.; cras qui dies futurus est Non. Sept.
    
  • to be always at a person's side: ab alicuius latere non discedere
    
  • to make not the slightest effort; not to stir a finger: manum non vertere alicuius rei causa
    
  • to have disappeared: non apparere
    
  • to fail to see what lies before one: quod ante pedes est or positum est, non videre
    
  • to keep one's countenance, remain impassive: vultum non mutare
    
  • to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: lacrimas tenere non posse
    
  • to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: fletum cohibere non posse
    
  • to be unable to speak for emotion: prae lacrimis loqui non posse
    
  • to be unable to sleep: somnum capere non posse
    
  • I cannot sleep for anxiety: curae somnum mihi adimunt, dormire me non sinunt
    
  • I haven't had a wink of sleep: somnum oculis meis non vidi (Fam. 7. 30)
    
  • the matter progresses favourably, succeeds: aliquid (bene, prospere) succedit or procedit (opp. parum procedere, non succedere)
    
  • on good grounds; reasonably: non sine causa
    
  • to draw from the fountain-head: e fontibus haurire (opp. rivulos consectari or fontes non videre)
    
  • it is incompatible with the nature of a wise man; the wise are superior to such things: hoc in sapientem non cadit
    
  • it is no longer in my power: mihi non est integrum, ut...
    
  • to accede to a man's petitions: alicui petenti satisfacere, non deesse
    
  • to chafe under an indignity, repudiate it: ignominiam non ferre
    
  • to spare no pains: labori, operae non parcere
    
  • to work without intermission: laborem non intermittere
    
  • ideally, not really: cogitatione, non re
    
  • to be probable: a vero non abhorrere
    
  • I know very well: probe scio, non ignoro
    
  • I know very well: non sum ignarus, nescius (not non sum inscius)
    
  • I am not unaware: me non fugit, praeterit
    
  • I cannot make myself believe that..: non possum adduci, ut (credam)
    
  • I have not made up my mind: mihi non constat (with indirect question)
    
  • I cannot bring myself to..: a me impetrare non possum, ut
    
  • to differ qualitatively not quantitatively: genere, non numero or magnitudine differre
    
  • I have nothing to say against it: non repugno
    
  • to contradict oneself, be inconsistent: a se dissidere or sibi non constare (of persons)
    
  • to be absolutely ignorant of arithmetic: bis bina quot sint non didicisse
    
  • to represent a thing dramatically: sic exponere aliquid, quasi agatur res (non quasi narretur)
    
  • to be unable to say all one wants: verbis non omnia exsequi posse
    
  • I have nothing to write about: non habeo argumentum scribendi
    
  • I have nothing to write about: non habeo, non est quod scribam
    
  • to answer every question: percontanti non deesse (De Or. 1. 21. 97)
    
  • not to trouble oneself about a thing: non laborare de aliqua re
    
  • I am not dissatisfied with my progress: non me paenitet, quantum profecerim
    
  • to lose one's head, be beside oneself: sui (mentis) compotem non esse
    
  • to lose one's head, be beside oneself: non esse apud se (Plaut. Mil. 4. 8. 26)
    
  • the house is not large enough for all: domus non omnes capit (χωρειν)
    
  • to never set foot out of doors: domo pedem non efferre
    
  • I have no means, no livelihood: non habeo, qui (unde) vivam
    
  • to be bankrupt: non solvendo esse (Phil. 2. 2. 4)
    
  • the corn is not yet ripe: frumenta in agris matura non sunt (B. G. 1. 16. 2)
    
  • to further the common weal: saluti rei publicae non deesse
    
  • there are whispers of the appointment of a dictator: non nullus odor est dictaturae (Att. 4. 18)
    
  • to take care not to..: non committere, ut...
    
  • men exempt from service owing to age: qui per aetatem arma ferre non possunt or aetate ad bellum inutiles
    
  • to fail to answer one's name: ad nomen non respondere (Liv. 7. 4)
    
  • not to interrupt the march: iter non intermittere
    
  • to not let the enemy escape: hostem e manibus non dimittere
    
  • not to mention..: ut non (nihil) dicam de...
    
  • to say nothing further on..: ut plura non dicam
    
  • I do not deny: non nego, non infitior
    
  • I cannot find words for..: dici vix (non) potest or vix potest dici (vix like non always before potest)
    
  • which I can say without offence, arrogance: quod non arroganter dixerim
    
  • this is not the place to..: non est huius loci c. Inf.
    
  • this is not the place to..: non est hic locus, ut...
    
  • I do not take that too strictly: non id ad vivum reseco (Lael. 5. 8)
    

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Lote

Noun

non

1. man

References

• Greg Pearson, René van den Berg, Lote Grammar Sketch (2008)

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Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔ̃/

Etymology 1

From French nom.

Noun

non

1. name

Alternative forms

• nom

Etymology 2

From French non.

Adverb

non

1. no; a word used to indicate disagreement or negation

   Antonym: wi

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French non.

Interjection

non

1. no

Descendants

• French: non

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Novial

Adverb

non

1. not

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Old English

Etymology 1

From Latin nōna (“ninth; ninth hour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /noːn/

Noun

nōn ?

1. (historical) Nones, the ninth hour after sunrise
2. (Christianity) Nones, the religious service appointed to this hour

Synonyms

• (time): nōntīd, nōntīma
• (religious service): nōnsang

Derived terms

• nōngereord, nōnmete, nōnsang, nōntīd, nōntīma

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /non/

Noun

non m

1. A form of address from younger to older monks.

References

• "nōn" and "non" in Bosworth & Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1882), Oxford: Clarendon Press.

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin nōn.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -õn

Interjection

non

1. no

Adverb

non

1. not
   • c. 1190, Chrétien de Troyes, 'Le Roman de Percival':

     Les uns barbez, les autres non

     Some bearded, the others not

Noun

non m (oblique plural nons, nominative singular nons, nominative plural non)

1. Alternative form of nom

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Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin nōn (“no”), from Old Latin noenum, from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“not”) + *óynos (“one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnõ/

Adverb

non

1. no, not
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 84 (facsimile):

     ſi ou non

     yes or no

Descendants

• Fala: non
• Galician: non
• Portuguese: não

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Romansch

Etymology

From Late Latin nonnus (compare Italian nonno).

Noun

non m (plural nons)

1. (Puter) grandfather

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) tat
• (Vallader) bazegner, bapsegner

Related terms

• nona

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Spanish

Etymology 1

From Latin non.

Adverb

non

1. Archaic form of no.

Etymology 2

From Latin non (par).

Adjective

non

1. odd (indivisible by two)

   Synonym: impar

   Antonym: par

Further reading

• “non” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [nɔn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [nɔŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [nɔŋ˧˧]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *k-nɔːn, from *k-rn-ɔːn (?), which Ferlus considered' an infixed derivation of Proto-Vietic *kɔːn (“child”). Cognate with Chut [Rục] [kunɔːn¹].

Adjective

non (嫩)

1. young, tender, green
2. new
3. mild
4. premature
5. not up to the mark

Derived terms

Derived terms

• non nớt
• non trẻ

 

Etymology 2

Noun

non (𡽫, 𧀒)

1. mountain

Derived terms

Derived terms

• non nước
• non sông
• núi non

 

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Western Apache

Alternative forms

• noi

Etymology

Cognates: Navajo nooʼ, Chiricahua nun, Mescalero nun, Plains Apache nǫǫ.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): [nòn]

Noun

non

1. something stored away, cache

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Zazaki

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnon]
• Hyphenation: non

Noun

non m

1. Alternative form of nan