nulo

nulo

1. (anatomy) neck

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

From German null (“zero”), Russian нуль (nulʹ, “zero”), Italian nullo, French nul, all ultimately from Latin nullus (“none, not any”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnulo/

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• Rhymes: -ulo
• Hyphenation: nu‧lo

nulo (accusative singular nulon, plural nuloj, accusative plural nulojn)

1. zero (name of the numeric symbol or digit)

   Unu miliono havas ses nulojn.

   One million has six zeroes.

2. (figurative) someone or something of no importance or capabilities

• nul (the numeral zero)
• nula (“equal to zero, void, without value”)

From nula (“no, not any; nope”) +‎ -o (“thing”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnulo/

nulo

1. nothing, nought

From Latin nullus (“none”).

• Rhymes: -ulu
• Hyphenation: nu‧lo

nulo (feminine nula, masculine plural nulos, feminine plural nulas)

1. null; insignificant
2. void (having lost all legal validity)

Borrowed from Latin nullus (“none”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnulo/ [ˈnu.lo]
• Rhymes: -ulo
• Syllabification: nu‧lo

nulo (feminine nula, masculine plural nulos, feminine plural nulas)

1. null, void, invalid
2. useless, good-for-nothing
3. (obsolete) none

• “nulo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024