nonnumquam Latin · revision 32157

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [noːnˈnʊŋ.kʷãː]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [nonˈnuŋ.kʷam]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''nōnnumquam''' (not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''nōnnunquam'', and often written separately.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|nōn|numquam|t1=not|t2=never]], written as one word.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who opposes it to [[numquam]] in the speech against Vatinius.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means on various occasions, sometimes.^(OLD 2012) Cicero pairs it with ''aliquando'', and Caesar contrasts it with ''saepius'': the enemy tried to break through sometimes by day, more often by night.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Church Latin keeps the sense sometimes.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero in the sense sometimes.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar contrasting it with “more often”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # On various occasions, [[m|en|sometimes]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[non|alt=nōn]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}