aucun

French

Etymology

From Old French alcun, from Vulgar Latin aliquunum or alicunus, from Latin aliquem + unum.[1]

Cognate with Italian alcuno, Spanish alguno, Galician algún, Portuguese algum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /o.kœ̃/
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Adjective

aucun (feminine singular aucune, masculine plural aucuns, feminine plural aucunes)

  1. no, none, not any
    Il n'a aucun désir de construire des temples.
    He hasn't any desire to build temples.

Usage notes

  • Because of its meaning, the forms aucuns and aucunes are only used in archaic constructions

Derived terms

Pronoun

aucun m (feminine aucune)

  1. none, no-one
    Aucun d'entre eux n'a été capable de répondre.
    No one among them could give an answer.

References

  1. ↑ Dauzat, Albert; Jean Dubois, Henri Mitterand (1964), “aucun”, in Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique (in French), Paris: Librairie Larousse

Further reading

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Late Latin alquunus.

Adjective

aucun m (oblique and nominative feminine singular aucune)

  1. any
  2. (used with "ne") none; not any
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