omnis

English

Noun

omnis

1. plural of omni

Anagrams

• Minos, Simon, minos, simon

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *opnis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-ni-s (“working”), from the verbal root *h₃ep- (“to work”, and hence “to possess”). Related to ops and opus. It could also reflect the base Proto-Indo-European *h₁op- (“to work, to take”) (compare optō), to which De Vaan gives a slight preference for semantic reasons.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔm.nɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔm.nis]

Adjective

omnis (neuter omne); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. (as adjective)
   1. (in the singular) every

      omni vitio carere ― to be free from faults

      ius ac fas omne delere ― to trample all law under foot

      • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 5.710:

        Superanda omnis fortūna ferendō est.

        Every misfortune is to be overcome by enduring.

   2. (in the singular) whole, the entirety, all
      • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.1:

        Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partes trēs

        All Gaul is divided into three parts

   3. (in the plural) all

      in omnes partes ― in all directions

      omnes docti ― all learned men

      omnibus artubus contremiscere ― to tremble in every limb

      homines omnium ordinum et aetatum ― people of every rank and age

      • Attributed to Ennius by Augustinus in De Trinitate; Book XIII, Chapter III

        Omnēs mortālēs sēsē laudārier optant.

        All mortals wish to be praised.

2. (nominalized, in the plural)
   1. (masculine) everyone, all

      domus non omnes capit ― the house is not large enough for all

      omnium consensu ― unanimously

   2. (neuter) everything, all

      Omnia vincit amor. ― Love conquers all.

      in te omnia sunt ― everything depends on you

Usage notes

• In separating omnis from tōtus it can be useful to remember Quintilian's sentence (Ins.Or.8.3.70), "minus est tamen tōtum dīcere, quam omnia" ("It is less to say the whole, than all the parts.").

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	omnis	omne		omnēs	omnia
genitive	omnis			omnium
dative	omnī			omnibus
accusative	omnem	omne		omnīs omnēs	omnia
ablative	omnī			omnibus
vocative	omnis	omne		omnēs	omnia

Derived terms

• extrā omnēs
• omnino
• omnipotēns
• omnisciēns
• omnivorus

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: ogni, ogne, onni, onne
  • Neapolitan: ogne
  • Sicilian: ogni
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Ligurian: ògni
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: oni, onni, omni
    • French: à l'onni (dialectal)
• Borrowings:
  • → English: omnibus
  • → Ido: omna
  • → Interlingua: omne

See also

• cata
• tōtus

References

• “omnis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “omnis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “omnis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 428