num
Translingual
Etymology
Abbreviation of English Niuafo'ou with m as a placeholder.
Symbol
num
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Niuafo'ou terms
English
Noun
num (plural nums)
Alternative forms
Derived terms
Interjection
num
- (colloquial) Used to denote eating, or enjoyment of eating.
Alternative forms
Related terms
Anagrams
Afar
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnum/ [ˈnʊm]
- Hyphenation: num
Noun
núm m
Pronoun
núm
Declension
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Derived terms
- (diminutive): numóyta
See also
- labhá (“men”)
References
- E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “num”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
Kamkata-viri
Alternative forms
- nom (Eastern Kata-viri, Kamviri)
Etymology
From Proto-Nuristani *nāma, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnum/
Noun
num (Western Kata-viri)[1]
References
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈnũː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈnum]
Adverb
num (not comparable)
- now (only in the phrase etiam num)
- (in a direct question) a particle usually expecting a negation
- Num Sparta īnsula est? — Nōn est īnsula.
- Sparta is not an island, is it? — It's not an island.
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.369–370:
- “Num flētū ingemuit nostrō? Num lūmina flexit?
Num lacrimās victus dedit, aut miserātus amantem est?”- “Was he troubled by our tears? Did he [even] turn his eyes [to notice]? Has he been taken [by love and] shed tears, or pitied the one who loved him?”
(The anaphora of the three “nums” marks an ascending tricolon or tricolon crescens. Dido refers to herself using the “majestic plural” or “royal we”: nostro; and Dido uses third person singular verbs to question the actions of Aeneas who is standing before her.)
- “Was he troubled by our tears? Did he [even] turn his eyes [to notice]? Has he been taken [by love and] shed tears, or pitied the one who loved him?”
- “Num flētū ingemuit nostrō? Num lūmina flexit?
- (in an indirect question) whether
Derived terms
See also
References
- “num”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “num”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- num in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[3], London: Macmillan and Co.
- morning, noon, evening, night: tempus matutīnum, meridianum, vespertinum, nocturnum
- morning, noon, evening, night: tempus matutīnum, meridianum, vespertinum, nocturnum
Livonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *nummi. Cognates include Finnish nummi.
Noun
num
Old French
Noun
num oblique singular, m (oblique plural nuns, nominative singular nuns, nominative plural num)
- alternative form of nom
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈnũ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈnũ/
- Rhymes: -ũ
- Hyphenation: num
Etymology 1
Contraction
num (feminine numa, masculine plural nuns, feminine plural numas)
- contraction of em um (“in a (masculine)”)
- 2003, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix] (Harry Potter; 5), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 400:
- Não devia estar num quarto particular?
- Shouldn't he be in a private room?
Usage notes
The contraction is never obligatory and sometimes avoided in formal written Brazilian Portuguese.[1]
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:num.
Etymology 2
Adverb
num (not comparable)
- eye dialect spelling of não
- 1871, Júlio César Machado, Da Loucura e das Manias em Portugal, Estudos Humoristicos, Livraria de A. M. Pereira, page 18:
- Eu num estou doido […] !
- I'm not crazy […] !
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:num.
References
Romansch
Alternative forms
- nom (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)
Etymology
From Latin nōmen, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”).
Noun
num m (plural nums)
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) name
Sumerian
Romanization
num
- romanization of 𒉏 (num)