# num
## Translingual
### Symbol

num
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Niuafo'ou.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Niuafo'ou terms

## English
### Noun

num (plural nums)
* Abbreviation of number.
* (grammar) Abbreviation of numeral.

#### Alternative forms

* num.

#### Derived terms

* num lock

### Interjection

num
* (colloquial) Used to denote eating, or enjoyment of eating.

#### Alternative forms

* nom

#### Related terms

* nom
* num-num

### Anagrams

* MUN, mun, nmu, unm., Mun., Mun

## Afar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnum/ [ˈnʊm]
* Hyphenation: num

### Noun

núm m
* man, male
* person, human being
* mankind, humanity

### Pronoun

núm
* someone

#### Derived terms

* (diminutive): numóyta

#### See also

* labhá (“men”)

### References

* E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “num”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
* Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

## Kamkata-viri
### Alternative forms

* nom (Eastern Kata-viri, Kamviri)

### Etymology

From Proto-Nuristani *nāma, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈnum/

### Noun

num (Western Kata-viri)
* name

### References

* ↑ Strand, Richard F. (2016) “n′um”, in Nûristânî Etymological Lexicon‎

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /num/, [nʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /num/, [num]

### Adverb

num (not comparable)
* now (only in the phrase etiam num)
* (in a direct question) a particle usually expecting a negation
    Num Sparta īnsula est? — Nōn est īnsula.Sparta is not an island, is it? — It's not an island.
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.369–370:“Num flētū ingemuit nostrō? Num lūmina flexit? Num lacrimās victus dedit, aut miserātus amantem est?”“Was he troubled by our tears? Did he [even] turn his eyes [to notice]? Has he been taken [by love and] shed tears, or pitied the one who loved him?” (The anaphora of the three “nums” marks an ascending tricolon or tricolon crescens. Dido refers to herself using the “majestic plural” or “royal we”: nostro; and Dido uses third person singular verbs to question the actions of Aeneas who is standing before her.)
* (in an indirect question) whether

#### Derived terms

* numne
* numquid
* nunc

### See also

* nōnne

### 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

From Proto-Finnic *nummi. Cognates include Finnish nummi.

### Noun

num
* heather

## Old French
### Noun

num oblique singular, m (oblique plural nuns, nominative singular nuns, nominative plural num)
* Alternative form of nom

## Portuguese
### Alternative forms

* n'um (pre-standardization)
* nũ (obsolete)

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈnũ/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈnũ/
* Rhymes: -ũ
* Hyphenation: num

### Etymology 1
#### Contraction

num (feminine numa, masculine plural nuns, feminine plural numas)
* Contraction of em um (“in a (masculine)”).
** 2003, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix] (Harry Potter; 5), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, 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.

##### Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:num.

### Etymology 2
#### Adverb

num (not comparable)
* 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 using this term, see Citations:num.

### References

* ↑ http://portuguese.stackexchange.com/questions/3517/sobre-a-informalidade-de-num-numa-versus-em-um-em-uma-no-brasil

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* nom (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

### Etymology

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

### Noun

num m (plural nums)
* (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) name

## Sumerian
### Romanization

num
* Romanization of 𒉏 (num)