nemo
See also: NEMO
Latin
Etymology
Contraction of the Old Latin phrase ne hemō (“no man”) (Classical ne homō). Compare praeda for praehenda.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈneː.moː/
Audio (Classical) (file)
Pronoun
nēmō m or f (genitive nēminis)
- nobody, no one, no man
- c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De brevitate vitae 15:
- Horum te mori nemo coget, omnes docebunt; horum nemo annos tuos conteret, suos tibi contribuet; nullius ex his sermo periculosus erit, nullius amicitia capitalis, nullius sumptuosa obseruatio.
- No one of these will force you to die, but all will teach you how to die; no one of these will wear out your years, but each will add his own years to yours; conversations with no one of these will bring you peril, the friendship of none will endanger your life, the courting of none will tax your purse.
- Horum te mori nemo coget, omnes docebunt; horum nemo annos tuos conteret, suos tibi contribuet; nullius ex his sermo periculosus erit, nullius amicitia capitalis, nullius sumptuosa obseruatio.
- Nemo sine sapientia, beatus est. ― No man without wisdom, is happy.
Declension
Third declension.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | nēmō |
Genitive | nēminis |
Dative | nēminī |
Accusative | nēminem |
Ablative | nēmine |
Vocative | nēmō |
In Classical Latin, the suppletive genitive nūllīus and ablatives nūllō (masculine) and nūllā (feminine) frequently occur.
Plural forms (ordered by case as above: neminēs, neminum, neminibus, neminēs, neminibus, neminēs) also exist, but are rare, because these forms can only be translated accurately as 'no people', which is often rendered by other methods.
Derived terms
Derived terms
- Alium enim cui illam commendem habeo neminem.
- Aperte adulantem nemo non videt, nisi.
- nēmine contradicente (“with no one speaking against”)
- nēmine discrepante (“with no one speaking against”)
- nēminem captivabimus (“We shall not arrest anyone”)
- nēminem captivabimus nisi iure victum (“We shall not arrest anyone without a court verdict”)
- nemo alter/nemo alius (“no one else”)
References
- nemo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- nemo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nemo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- nemo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- nēmō in Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar. Boston & London: Ginn, 1903.
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- Pericles, the greatest man of his day: Pericles, quo nemo tum fuit clarior
- no man of learning: nemo doctus
- no one with any pretence to education: nemo mediocriter doctus
- Pericles, the greatest man of his day: Pericles, quo nemo tum fuit clarior
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- Pericles, the greatest man of his day: Pericles, quo nemo tum fuit clarior
- no man of learning: nemo doctus
- no one with any pretence to education: nemo mediocriter doctus
- Pericles, the greatest man of his day: Pericles, quo nemo tum fuit clarior
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- (Ijekavian): nijȇmo
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nêːmo/
- Hyphenation: ne‧mo
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