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nemo

nemo

See also: NEMO

Interlingua

Pronoun

nemo

  1. Not any person: nobody, no one. Synonym: necuno.

Latin

Etymology

Contraction of the Old Latin [Term?] phrase ne hemō (no man) (Classical ne homō). Compare praeda for praehenda.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

nēmō m, f (genitive nēminis)

  1. 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.
    Quem nemo ferro potuit superare nec auro. ― Whom none could overcome with iron or gold.
    Amīcus omnibus, amīcus nemini. ― A friend to all, a friend to none.
    Vicinam neminem amo magis quam te. ― I love a neighbouring nobody more than you.
    Nemo, nisi sapiens, liber est.No one, unless he is wise, is free.
    Nemo ante mortem beatus.No one [can be called] happy before his death.
    Nemo non formosus filius matri.No one fails to be a beautiful son for his mother.
    Absque sanitate nemo felix. ― Without health, no one [is] happy.
    Nemo sine sapientia, beatus est.No man without wisdom, is happy.
    Nemo cum sarcinis enatat.No one swims away with his bundles/belongings.
    Nemo est supra leges.No one is above the law.
    Nemo ex amoris vulnere sanus abit.No one walks away unscathed from the wound of love.

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.

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nêːmo/
  • Hyphenation: ne‧mo

Adverb

nȇmo (Cyrillic spelling не̑мо)

  1. mutely, dumbly