nec unus

Latin

Etymology

From nec + ūnus. Documented in Late Latin from at least the fifth century CE.[1]

Adjective

nec ūnus (feminine nec ūna, neuter nec ūnum); indeclinable portion with a first/second-declension adjective (Late Latin)

  1. (This entry is a descendant hub.) not even one

Descendants

References

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1597: “non lo trovo in nessun luogo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 1665: “personne ne me croit” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
  • Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “nĕc ūnus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 435
  • Misión lingüística en el Alto Aragón - Joseph Saroïhandy
  1. Gianollo, Chiara. 2020. Grammaticalization parameters and the retrieval of alternatives: Latin nec from discourse connector to uninterpretable feature. In Gergel, Remus & Watkins, Jonathan (eds.), Quantification and scales in change, 47–48. Berlin: Language Science Press.
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