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omnino

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Latin

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Etymology

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From omnia (all things) + -īnus (-ine: forming adjectives) + (-ly: forming adverbs).

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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omnīnō (not comparable)

  1. in all things, in all ways, entirely, utterly, altogether, wholly
    Omnes omnia omnino doceantur.
    All people should be entirely taught all things.
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.330:
      “[...] nōn equidem omnīnō captā ac dēserta vidērer.”
      “[...and], at least for me, I would not feel so utterly taken and abandoned.”
  2. (with numerals) in all, altogether, only, just
    Quīnque omnīnō fuērunt.
    They were five in all.
    Erant omnīnō itinera duo.
    There were only two ways.
    • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 1.7:
      Prōvinciae tōtī quam māximum potest mīlitum numerum imperat (erat omnīnō in Galliā ūlteriōre legiō ūna); [] .
      He requires from the entire Province as many numbers of soldiers as possible (there was altogether only one legion in Farthest Gaul); [] .
  3. (with negatives) in any thing, in any way, at all
    Sī probāre possēmus Ligārium in Āfricā omnīnō nōn fuisse.
    If we could prove that Ligarius was not at all in Africa.

Synonyms

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Descendants

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  • Italian: onninamente

References

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  • omnino”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • omnino”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • omnino”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to not say a word: nullum (omnino) verbum facere
    • not to trouble oneself about a thing: nihil omnino curare
  • omnino in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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