Latin

Conjunction

necne

1. or not
2. (with negative, usually following utrum) whether ("Nihil interest valeam necne." It matters not whether I am well [or not].)

References

• necne in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• necne in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• NECNE in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “necne”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.