nullus Latin · revision 17750

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 280–200 BC, Livius Andronicus|origins=la ūnus}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈnuːl.lʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈnul.lus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''nūllus''' (feminine nūlla, neuter nūllum); first/second-declension pronoun (pronominal declension or non-pronominal declension)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It goes back to [[m|itc-pro|*ne oinolos|t=not a little one]], from the negative [[m|la|ne-]] and a diminutive of [[ūnus|t=one]] (older ⟨oinos⟩), from [[ine-pro|*óynos|t=one]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) [[ūllus|t=any]] is probably a later formation; by the surface analysis “nūllus” is ⟨ne⟩ + “ūllus”, “not any”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It is found in a royal law and in Livius Andronicus;^(Köbler 2010) Plautus has ''nūlla contrōversia mihi tēcum erit'' “I shall have no quarrel with you”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Nūllus'' means “no, not any”; as a noun it supplies the genitive and ablative of ''[[nēmō]]'' (''nūllīus'', ''nūllō'') and means “no one”.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) A following negative turns it into an affirmative (''nūllus nōn'' “everyone”).^(OLD 2012) In early and colloquial Latin it serves as an emphatic “not”, and as a complement it means “non-existent, not there”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ English [[m|en|null]] “void of legal force”, recorded from the 1560s, comes from it through French [[m|fr|nul]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 280–200 BC – First found in Livius Andronicus.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''nūllan tibi lingua est?'' “have you no tongue?”^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1560s – English [[m|en|null]], through French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Determiner===

+ # [[m|en|no]], not any.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # ''(as noun)'' No one, nobody;^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) ''(neuter)'' nothing.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''nūllus nōn'', every; everyone.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(colloquial)'' Not at all.^(Wiktionary)

+ # Non-existent, not there.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[nōnnūllus]]

+ * [[nūllātenus]]

+ * [[nūllusdum]]

+ * [[annūllō]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[ūllus]]

+ * [[ūnus]]

+ * [[nēmō]]

+ * [[nihil]]

+ * [[en|null]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}