num

See also: núm, num., Num., and núm.

English

Alternative forms

• num.

Noun

num (plural nums)

1. Abbreviation of number.
2. (grammar) Abbreviation of numeral.

Anagrams

• Mun, Mun., mun, nmu

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /num/, [nũ]

Adverb

num

1. now (only in the phrase, etiam num)
2. (in a direct question) a particle expecting a negation

   Num Sparta insula est? — Non est insula.

   What, is Sparta an island? — No, it's not.

3. (in an indirect question) whether

Derived terms

• numne
• nunc

See also

• nōnne

References

• 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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • morning, noon, evening, night: tempus matutīnum, meridianum, vespertinum, nocturnum
    

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Livonian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish nummi.

Noun

num

1. heather

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Old French

Noun

num m (oblique plural nuns, nominative singular nuns, nominative plural num)

1. Alternative form of nom

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nũ/
• Rhymes: -ũ

Etymology 1

Contraction

num m (plural nuns, feminine numa, feminine plural numas)

1. Contraction of em um.
   • 2003, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), Rocco, page 400:

     Não devia estar num quarto particular?

     Shouldn't he be in a private room?

Usage Notes

The contraction is never obligatory and sometimes avoided in formal written Brazilian Portuguese.

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:num.

Etymology 2

Adverb

num (not comparable)

1. 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 […] !

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:num.

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• nom (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

Etymology

From Latin nōmen, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”).

Noun

num m (plural nums)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) name