nec

See also: Appendix:Variations of "nec"

Translingual

Symbol

nec

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Nedebang.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Nedebang terms

Arapaho

Noun

nec

1. water

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• necu

Etymology

From Latin necō. Compare Daco-Romanian îneca, înec.

Verb

nec (participle nicatã or nãcate)

1. to kill
2. to drown

Synonyms

• (kill): vatãm, tsid

Derived terms

• nicare / nicari
• nicat
• nãcari
• nãcat

Interlingua

Alternative forms

• ni

Etymology

From Latin nec (“and not”).

Adverb

nec

1. And not.

   Io non sape, nec vole sapere. ― I don't know, and I don't want to know.

2. Neither, nor.

   Illo nec me place nec displace. ― It neither pleases me nor displeases me.

3. And, or (following a "with no" or "without").

   Nos debe resister sin aqua nec alimento. ― We must resist with no water or food.

Latin

Etymology

Apocopated form of neque.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnɛk]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnɛk]

Adverb

nec (not comparable)

1. nor
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.10–14:

     Nūllus adhūc mundō praebēbat lūmina Tītān,
     nec nova crēscendō reparābat cornua Phoebē,
     nec circumfūsō pendēbat in āere tellūs
     ponderibus lībrāta suīs, nec bracchia longō
     margine terrārum porrēxerat Amphītrītē; […]

     No Titan [Sun] as yet provided light to the world, nor did Phoebe [the Moon] repair new horns in waxing, nor did the Earth hang in the surrounding air, balanced by its own weights, nor had Amphitrite [the sea] stretched her arms down the far borders of the lands; […]

2. and not, not
3. neither
4. not even

Synonyms

• (not even): nē quidem

Conjunction

nec

1. nor
2. and not
3. not either
4. not even

Synonyms

• (not even): nē quidem

Derived terms

• nec ... nec (“neither ... nor”)
• nec nōn (“and also, not to mention”)
• nec ūnus (“not even one”)

Descendants

• Italo-Dalmatian:
  • Dalmatian: ne
  • Italian: né
  • Neapolitan: né
  • Sicilian: né
  • Venetan: né
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Lombard: gna
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: ni
  • Old French: ne
    • Middle French: ny
      • French: ni
• Ibero-Romance
  • Asturian: nin
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: nen, nin
    • Fala: nin
    • Galician: nin
    • Portuguese: nem
  • Spanish: ni
• Borrowings:
  • → Esperanto: nek

References

• “nec”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nec”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “nec”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a thing has happened contrary to my expectation: aliquid mihi nec opinanti, insperanti accidit
    
  • no wonder: nec mirum, minime mirum (id quidem), quid mirum?
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995), New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Megleno-Romanian

Etymology

From Latin necō. Compare Romanian îneca.

Verb

nec

1. I kill.
2. I drown.

Synonyms

• vatăm

Related terms

• nicari

Middle English

Noun

nec

1. alternative form of nekke