num

See also: núm, num., Num., and núm.

English

Alternative forms

Noun

num (plural nums)

  1. Abbreviation of number.
  2. (grammar) Abbreviation of numeral.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”).

Pronunciation

Adverb

num

  1. now (only in the phrase, etiam num)
  2. (in a direct question) a particle expecting a negation
    Num Sparta insula est? — Non est insula.
    What, is Sparta an island? — No, it's not.
  3. (in an indirect question) whether

Derived terms

See also

References

  • num in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • num in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • num in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • morning, noon, evening, night: tempus matutīnum, meridianum, vespertinum, nocturnum

Livonian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish nummi.

Noun

num

  1. heather

Old French

Noun

num m (oblique plural nuns, nominative singular nuns, nominative plural num)

  1. Alternative form of nom

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nũ/
  • Rhymes: -ũ

Etymology 1

Contraction

num m (plural nuns, feminine numa, feminine plural numas)

  1. Contraction of em um.
    • 2003, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), Rocco, page 400:
      Não devia estar num quarto particular?
      Shouldn't he be in a private room?

Usage Notes

The contraction is never obligatory and sometimes avoided in formal written Brazilian Portuguese.[1]

Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:num.

Etymology 2

Adverb

num (not comparable)

  1. Eye dialect spelling of não.
    • 1871, Júlio César Machado, Da Loucura e das Manias em Portugal, Estudos Humoristicos, Livraria de A. M. Pereira, page 18:
      Eu num estou doido […] !
      I'm not crazy […] !
Quotations

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:num.

References

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • nom (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

Etymology

From Latin nōmen, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”).

Noun

num m (plural nums)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) name
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