numquam

• nunquam
• numqua (Late Latin, proscribed)

From ne + umquam.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnʊŋ.kʷãː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnum.kʷam]

numquam (not comparable)

1. never, at no time

   Ōlla observāta numquam fervet ― A watched pot never boils

   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martial, Epigrammata III.95:

     Numquam dicis have, sed reddis, Naevole, semper

     You never say "hey", but you always return the greeting, Naevolus

2. not at all, by no means

• (antonym(s) of “never”): semper

• nōnnumquam

• num
• quam

• “numquam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “nŭmquam”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 7: N–Pas, page 241

• “numquam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• numquam in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• numquam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the memory of this will never fade from my mind: numquam ex animo meo memoria illius rei discedet