# nullus
## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *noinolos, from *ne oinolos (literally “not (a) little one”), from a diminutive of Proto-Italic *oinos (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *óynos. By surface analysis, ne (“not”) +‎ ūllus (“any”), literally “not any”.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈnuːl.lus/, [ˈnuːlːʲʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈnul.lus/, [ˈnulːus]

### Pronoun

nūllus (feminine nūlla, neuter nūllum); first/second-declension adjective (pronominal)
* no one, none, not any, nothing
    Nūllum amat.He loves no one.

#### Declension

First/second-declension adjective (pronominal).

### Adjective

nūllus (feminine nūlla, neuter nūllum); first/second-declension adjective (pronominal)
* no, not any
** c. 97 CE – 104 CE, Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 1.9:nūllā spē, nūllō timōre sollicitor, nūllīs rūmōribus inquiētor: mēcum tantum et cum libellīs loquor.I am not disturbed by any hope, not by any fear; I am not disquieted by any rumours: I speak only with me and with the little books.

#### Declension

First/second-declension adjective (pronominal).

#### Derived terms

* annūllō
* homō nūllīus colōris
* nōnnūllus
* nullātenus
* nūllātiō
* nullibi
* nūllificāmen
* nūllificō
* nūllusdum

#### Related terms

* annullātiō
* nullificāmen
* nullificātiō

#### Descendants
##### Romance

Some Romance descendants may be borrowings.
* Gallo-Italic
** Piedmontese: nul
* → Catalan: nul
* Italo-Dalmatian
** Dalmatian: nolja f
** Italian: nullo m; nulla f
*** → German: Nulla, Null (see there for further descendants)
** Sicilian: nuḍḍu
* → Old French: nul (see there for further descendants)
** French: nul
** → Dutch: nul
** → English: null
** → Romanian: nul
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Romansch: nulla, nul, nola, nolla
* West Iberian
** Old Galician-Portuguese: nulho, nulha
*** → Portuguese: nulo
** → Spanish: nulo

##### Other languages

* → Belarusian: нуль (nulʹ)
* → Cimbrian: null
* → Czech: nula
* → Danish: nul
* → Eastern Mari: ноль (noĺ)
* → Estonian: null
* → Faroese: null
* → German: Null
* → Hungarian: nulla
* → Hunsrik: null
* → Finnish: nolla
* → Indonesian: nol
** → Malay: nol
** → Tausug: nul
* → Karelian: nol’a
* → Kazakh: нөл (nöl)
* → Kyrgyz: нөль (nöl)
* → Latvian: nulle
* → Lithuanian: nulis
* → Luxembourgish: Null
* → Macedonian: нула (nula)
* → Northern Sami: nolˈla
* → Norwegian Bokmål: null
* → Pennsylvania German: null
* → Russian: нуль (nulʹ)
** → Kazakh: нөл (nöl)
** → Uyghur: نۆل (nöl)
** → Georgian: ნული (nuli)
** → Armenian: նուլ (nul)
* → Serbo-Croatian: nula / нула
* → Silesian: nul
* → Slovak: nula
* → Swedish: noll
* → Tatar: nol
* → Turkmen: nol
* → Ukrainian: нуль (nulʹ)
* → Uzbek: nol
* → Veps: nol'
* → Voro: nulĺ
* → Votic: noľ
* → West Frisian: nul

### References

* “nullus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “nullus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* "nullus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* nullus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. to devote every spare moment to...; to work without intermission at a thing: nullum tempus intermittere, quin (also ab opere, or ad opus) to be of great (no) importance: magni (nullius) momenti esse no opportunity of carrying out an object presents itself: nulla est facultas alicuius rei to avoid no risk in order to..: nullum periculum recusare pro I had not deserved it: nullo meo merito not to leave off work for an instant: nullum tempus a labore intermittere without any trouble: nullo negotio without reflection; inconsiderately; rashly: nullo consilio, nulla ratione, temere to make all possible haste to..: nullam moram interponere, quin (Phil. 10. 1. 1) without delay: sine mora or nulla mora interposita nothing will ever make me forgetful of him: memoriam eius nulla umquam delebit (obscurabit) oblivio (Fam. 2. 1) to know nothing of logic: disserendi artem nullam habere to arrange on strictly logical principles: ratione, eleganter (opp. nulla ratione, ineleganter, confuse) disponere aliquid to say nothing either for or against an argument: in nullam partem disputare no sound passed his lips: nulla vox est ab eo audita to not say a word: nullum (omnino) verbum facere no word escaped him: nullum verbum ex ore eius excidit (or simply ei) not to understand a single word: verbum prorsus nullum intellegere to possess not the least spark of feeling: nullam partem sensus habere to fulfil one's duty in every detail: nullam officii partem deserere to act reasonably, judiciously: prudenter, considerate, consilio agere (opp. temere, nullo consilio, nulla ratione) to be conscious of no ill deed: nullius culpae sibi conscium esse with no moderation: sine modo; nullo modo adhibito to have no principles: omnia temere agere, nullo iudicio uti absence of scruples, unconscientiousness: nulla religio to have no constitution, be in anarchy: nullam habere rem publicam to be neutral: nullius or neutrius (of two) partis esse lawlessness; anarchy: leges nullae lawlessness; anarchy: iudicia nulla there are whispers of the appointment of a dictator: non nullus odor est dictaturae (Att. 4. 18) absence of justice: ius nullum
* nullus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016