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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
num (plural nums)
Anagrams[edit]
Afar[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
num m
Derived terms[edit]
- numóyta (diminutive)
References[edit]
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
num (not comparable)
- now (only in the phrase etiam num)
- (in a direct question) a particle usually expecting a negation
- Num Sparta insula est? — Non est insula.
- Sparta's not an island, is it? — No, it's not.
- Num Sparta insula est? — Non est insula.
- (in an indirect question) whether
Derived terms[edit]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- num in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- num in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- num in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
- morning, noon, evening, night: tempus matutīnum, meridianum, vespertinum, nocturnum
- morning, noon, evening, night: tempus matutīnum, meridianum, vespertinum, nocturnum
Livonian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Akin to Finnish nummi.
Noun[edit]
num
Old French[edit]
Noun[edit]
num m (oblique plural nuns, nominative singular nuns, nominative plural num)
- Alternative form of nom
Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Contraction[edit]
num m (plural nuns, feminine numa, feminine plural numas)
- Contraction of em um (“in a”).
- 2003, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix] (Harry Potter; 5), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 400:
- Não devia estar num quarto particular?
- Shouldn't he be in a private room?
Usage notes[edit]
The contraction is never obligatory and sometimes avoided in formal written Brazilian Portuguese.[1]
Quotations[edit]
For quotations using this term, see Citations:num.
Etymology 2[edit]
Adverb[edit]
num (not comparable)
- Eye dialect spelling of não.
- 1871, Júlio César Machado, Da Loucura e das Manias em Portugal, Estudos Humoristicos, Livraria de A. M. Pereira, page 18:
- Eu num estou doido […] !
- I'm not crazy […] !
- Eu num estou doido […] !
- 1871, Júlio César Machado, Da Loucura e das Manias em Portugal, Estudos Humoristicos, Livraria de A. M. Pereira, page 18:
Quotations[edit]
For quotations using this term, see Citations:num.
References[edit]
Romansch[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- nom (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)
Etymology[edit]
From Latin nōmen, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”).
Noun[edit]
num m (plural nums)
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) name
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