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amount
English
Etymology
From Middle English amounten (“to mount up to, come up to, signify”), from Old French amonter (“to amount to”), from amont, amunt (“uphill, upward”), from the prepositional phrase a mont (“toward or to a mountain or heap”), from Latin ad montem, from ad (“to”) + montem, accusative of mons (“mountain”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?.mount', IPA(key): /??ma?nt/
- Rhymes: -a?nt
Noun
amount (plural amounts)
- The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
- A quantity or volume.
- (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
Hyponyms
- notional amount
- principal amount
Derived terms
- paramount
Translations
Verb
amount (third-person singular simple present amounts, present participle amounting, simple past and past participle amounted)
- (intransitive, followed by to) To total or evaluate.
- It amounts to three dollars and change.
- (intransitive, followed by to) To be the same as or equivalent to.
- He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
- His response amounted to gross insubordination
- (obsolete, intransitive) To go up; to ascend.
Translations
See also
- extent
- magnitude
- measurement
- number
- quantity
- size
Further reading
- amount in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- amount in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- amount at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- mantou, moutan, outman, tomaun
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num
English
Alternative forms
- num.
Noun
num (plural nums)
- Abbreviation of number.
- (grammar) Abbreviation of numeral.
Anagrams
- Mun, Mun., mun, nmu
Afar
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /num/
Noun
num m
- man, male
- Synonym: labháytu
- person
Derived terms
- numóyta (diminutive)
References
- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)?[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *n? (“now”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /num/, [n???]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /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 insula est? — Non est insula.
- Sparta's not an island, is it? — No, it's not.
- Num Sparta insula est? — Non est insula.
- (in an indirect question) whether
Derived terms
- numne
- numquid
- nunc
See also
- n?nne
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?[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
Livonian
Etymology
Akin to Finnish nummi.
Noun
num
- heather
Old French
Noun
num m (oblique plural nuns, nominative singular nuns, nominative plural num)
- Alternative form of nom
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Portugal, Brazil) IPA(key): /n?/
- Rhymes: -?
Etymology 1
Contraction
num m (plural nuns, feminine numa, feminine plural numas)
- Contraction of em um (“in a”).
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 […] !
- Eu num estou doido […] !
- 1871, Júlio César Machado, Da Loucura e das Manias em Portugal, Estudos Humoristicos, Livraria de A. M. Pereira, page 18:
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:num.
References
Romansch
Alternative forms
- nom (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)
Etymology
From Latin n?men, from Proto-Indo-European *h?nómn? (“name”).
Noun
num m (plural nums)
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) name
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