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nemo
nemo
See also: NEMO
Latin
Etymology
Contraction of the Old Latin [Term?] phrase ne hemō (“no man”) (Classical ne homō). Compare praeda for praehenda.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈneː.moː/
Pronoun
nēmō m, f (genitive nēminis)
- nobody, no one, no man
- c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De brevitate vitae 15
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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.
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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.
- 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.
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Declension
Third declension.
Case | Singular |
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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.
Derived terms
Derived terms
Descendants
- Romanian: nimeni
References
- nemo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- nemo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- NEMO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “nemo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- Pericles, the greatest man of his day: Pericles, quo nemo tum fuit clarior
- no man of learning: nemo doctus
- no one with any pretence to education: nemo mediocriter doctus
- Pericles, the greatest man of his day: Pericles, quo nemo tum fuit clarior