nonnullus

Latin

Alternative forms

• nōn nūllus

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin nōn

Proto-Indo-European *ís?

Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos

Proto-Italic *oinosder.

Proto-Italic *noinolos

Latin nūllus

Latin nōnnūllus

From nōn (“not”) + nūllus (“no one, no, not any”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [noːnˈnuːl.lʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [nonˈnul.lus]

Adjective

nōnnūllus (feminine nōnnūlla, neuter nōnnūllum); first/second-declension adjective (pronominal declension)

1. some, several, a few
2. nonzero (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (pronominal declension).

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	nōnnūllus	nōnnūlla	nōnnūllum		nōnnūllī	nōnnūllae	nōnnūlla
genitive	nōnnūllī̆us				nōnnūllōrum	nōnnūllārum	nōnnūllōrum
dative	nōnnūllī				nōnnūllīs
accusative	nōnnūllum	nōnnūllam	nōnnūllum		nōnnūllōs	nōnnūllās	nōnnūlla
ablative	nōnnūllō	nōnnūllā	nōnnūllō		nōnnūllīs
vocative	nōnnūlle	nōnnūlla	nōnnūllum		nōnnūllī	nōnnūllae	nōnnūlla

Descendants

• Italo-Romance: (from the neuter plural)
  • Italian: nonnulla m

References

• “nonnullus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nonnullus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nonnullus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • I wish to say a few words in preface: nonnulla praedīcam