nec

See also: NEC, néč, nęć, -nec, and n.e.c.

Arapaho

Noun

nec

1. water

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• necu

Etymology

From Latin necō. Compare Daco-Romanian îneca, înec.

Verb

nec first-singular present indicative (past participle nicatã or nãcate)

1. to kill
2. to drown

Synonyms

• (kill): vatãm, tsid

Derived terms

• nicare / nicari
• nicat
• nãcari
• nãcat

Interlingua

Alternative forms

• ni

Etymology

From Latin nec (“and not”).

Adverb

nec

1. And not.

   Io non sape, nec vole sapere. ― I don't know, and I don't want to know.

2. Neither, nor.

   Illo nec me place nec displace. ― It neither pleases me nor displeases me.

3. And, or (following a "with no" or "without").

   Nos debe resister sin aqua nec alimento. ― We must resist with no water or food.

Latin

Etymology

Apocopated form of neque.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /nek/, [nɛk]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /nek/, [nɛk]

Adverb

nec (not comparable)

1. nor
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.10–14:

     Nūllus adhūc mundō praebēbat lūmina Tītān,
     nec nova crēscendō reparābat cornua Phoebē,
     nec circumfūsō pendēbat in āere tellūs
     ponderibus lībrāta suīs, nec bracchia longō
     margine terrārum porrēxerat Amphītrītē; […]

     No Titan [Sun] as yet provided light to the world, nor did Phoebe [the Moon] repair new horns in waxing, nor did the Earth hang in the surrounding air, balanced by its own weights, nor had Amphitrite [the sea] stretched her arms down the far borders of the lands; […]

2. and not, not
3. neither
4. not even

Synonyms

• (not even): nē quidem

Conjunction

nec

1. nor
2. and not
3. not either
4. not even

Synonyms

• (not even): nē quidem

Derived terms

• nec ... nec (“neither ... nor”)
• nec nōn (“and also, not to mention”)
• nec ūnus (“not even one”)

Descendants

• Asturian: nin
• Catalan: ni
• Dalmatian: ne
• Esperanto: nek
• Fala: nin
• French: ni
• Galician: nin
• Italian: né
• Lombard: gna
• Middle French: ny
• Old French: ne
• Old Galician-Portuguese: nen
• Portuguese: nem
• Sicilian: ne
• Spanish: ni

References

• “nec”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nec”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nec in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a thing has happened contrary to my expectation: aliquid mihi nec opinanti, insperanti accidit
    
  • no wonder: nec mirum, minime mirum (id quidem), quid mirum?
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Megleno-Romanian

Etymology

From Latin necō. Compare Romanian îneca.

Verb

nec

1. I kill.
2. I drown.

Synonyms

• vatăm

Related terms

• nicari

Middle English

Noun

nec

1. Alternative form of nekke