different between nec vs nos

Arapaho

Noun

nec

1. water

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• necu

Etymology

From Latin nec?. Compare Daco-Romanian îneca, înec.

Verb

nec (past participle nicatã or nãcate)

1. I kill.
2. I 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.

2. Neither, nor.

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

Latin

Etymology

Apocopated form of neque.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /nek/, [n?k]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /nek/, [n?k]

Adverb

nec (not comparable)

1. nor
2. and not, not
3. neither
4. not even

Synonyms

• (not even): n? quidem

Conjunction

nec

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

Synonyms

• (not even): n? quidem

Derived terms

• nec...nec (neither...nor)

Descendants

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.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, ?ISBN

English

Alternative forms

• noes

Noun

nos

1. plural of no

Anagrams

• -son, ONS, SON, Son, ons, son

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin nos. Akin to Spanish nos and French nous.

Pronoun

nos

1. us (first-person plural direct pronoun)
2. (to) us (first-person plural indirect pronoun)

Synonyms

• mos

Asturian

Alternative forms

• mos (pronoun)
• ños (pronoun)

Etymology 1

From Latin n?s (“we; us”).

Pronoun

nos

1. us (dative and accusative of nosotros/nós)

Etymology 2

From a contraction of the preposition en (“in”) + masculine plural article los (“the”).

Contraction

nos m pl (masculine sg nel, feminine sg na, neuter sg no, feminine plural nes)

1. in the

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin n?s (“we; us”), from Proto-Italic *n?s.

Pronoun

nos (enclitic, contracted 'ns, proclitic ens)

1. us (direct or indirect object)

Declension

Related terms

• nosaltres

Cornish

Etymology 1

Uncertain; either inherited from Proto-Celtic *noxs or borrowed from Latin nox. In either case, cognate with Breton noz, Welsh nos and Gaulish nox, all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nók?ts.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

nos f (plural nosow)

1. night

Etymology 2

From Latin nota. Cognate with Welsh nod, Irish nod, nóta and English note. Doublet of noten.

Noun

nos m (plural nosow)

1. mark
2. token

References

• nos in the Gerlyver Kernewek Cornish Dictionary

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?nos]
• Hyphenation: nos
• Rhymes: -os

Etymology 1

From Old Czech nos, from Proto-Slavic *nos?, from Proto-Indo-European *néh?s.

Noun

nos m inan

1. (anatomy) nose

Declension

Synonyms

• fr?ák, ?enich, ra?afák

Derived terms

• nosá?
• nosní

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

nos

1. second-person singular imperative of nosit

Further reading

• nos in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• nos in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Fala

Etymology

From Old Portuguese nos, from Latin n?s (“we; us”).

Pronoun

nos

1. we (first person plural nominative personal pronoun; the speakers/writers)
2. us (first person plural objective personal pronoun)

French

Etymology

From Old French noz, probably from Latin nostros.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /no/
• Rhymes: -o

Determiner

nos pl

1. plural of notre

Related terms

¹ Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel or mute h.

² Also used as the polite singular form.

Further reading

• “nos” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• son

Galician

Etymology 1

From contraction of preposition en (“in”) + masculine plural article os (“the”)

Contraction

nos m pl (masculine sg no, feminine sg na, feminine plural nas)

1. in the

Etymology 2

From a mutation of os.

Pronoun

nos m (accusative)

1. Alternative form of os (“them”, masculine plural)

Usage notes

The n- forms of accusative third-person pronouns are used when the preceding word ends in -u or a diphthong, and are suffixed to the preceding word.

See also

• Appendix:Galician pronouns
• los
• os
• nós

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronoun

nos

1. inflection of nós:
   1. accusative/dative
   2. reflexive

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese nós. Cognate with Kabuverdianu anos.

Pronoun

nos

1. we, first person plural.

Hungarian

Etymology

no (interjection) +? s (“and”, conjunction)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?no?]
• Hyphenation: nos
• Rhymes: -o?

Interjection

nos

1. well

References

Further reading

• nos in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Interlingua

Pronoun

nos

1. we
2. us

Kashubian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nos?, from Proto-Indo-European *néh?s.

Noun

nos m

1. (anatomy) nose

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *n?s, from Proto-Indo-European *n?smé.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /no?s/, [no?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /nos/, [n?s]

Pronoun

n?s

1. nominative/accusative plural of ego: we, us

Usage notes

When used in the plural genitive, nostr? is used when it is the object of an action, especially when used with a gerund or gerundive. When used in such a construction, the gerund or gerundive takes on the masculine genitive singular. Nostrum is used as a partitive genitive, used in constructions such as (one of us).

Derived terms

• n?b?scum

Descendants

See also

1st and 2nd person personal pronouns declension together with the possessive and reflexive pronouns.
is, ea, id (“he, she, it”) is not included here.

References

• nos in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nos in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Lombard

Alternative forms

• nus (Modern orthography)

Etymology

From Latin nucem, accusative singular of nux (“nut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *knew-.

Pronunciation

• (Milan) IPA^(key): /nu?s/

Noun

nos f (invariable) (Classical Milanese orthography)

1. walnut (fruit and tree)
2. (botany) nut

References

• Francesco Cherubini, Vocabolario milanese-italiano, Volume 3, 1843, p. 179

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nos?, from Proto-Indo-European *néh?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?s/

Noun

nos m (diminutive nosk)

1. nose

Declension

Middle English

Noun

nos (plural nosses)

1. Alternative form of nose

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse n?s, from Proto-Germanic *nas?, from Proto-Indo-European *néh?s.

Noun

nos f or m (definite singular nosa or nosen, indefinite plural noser, definite plural nosene)

1. (dialectal) nose
2. (dialectal) steep protruding point on a mountain

Synonyms

• (nose): nese

References

• “nos” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “nos” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse n?s, from Proto-Germanic *nas?, from Proto-Indo-European *néh?s.

Noun

nos f (definite singular nosa, indefinite plural naser, definite plural nasene)

1. nose
2. steep protruding point on a mountain

Synonyms

• (nose): nase

References

• “nos” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• sno, son

Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nus/

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin n?s.

Pronoun

nos

1. to us (first-person plural indirect object pronoun)
2. ourselves (first-person plural reflexive pronoun)

Etymology 2

From Old Occitan nos, nous, nou, from Latin n?dus. Compare Catalan nus, French nœud, Italian nodo.

Noun

nos m (plural noses)

1. knot

Old Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nos?, from Proto-Indo-European *néh?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nos/

Noun

nos m

1. (anatomy) nose

Declension

Descendants

• Czech: nos

Further reading

• “nos”, in Vokabulá? webový: webové hnízdo pramen? k poznání historické ?eštiny [online]?^[2], Praha: Ústav pro jazyk ?eský AV ?R, 2006–2020

Old French

Alternative forms

• nous (first-person plural subject pronoun)
• nus (first-person plural subject pronoun)

Etymology

From Latin n?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nus/

Pronoun

nos

1. we (first-person plural subject pronoun)
2. our (masculine and feminine plural possessive pronoun)
3. to us (first-person plural indirect object pronoun)
4. ourselves (first-person plural reflexive pronoun)

Descendants

• Middle French: nous
  • French: nous

Old Spanish

Etymology 1

From Latin n?s, in the nominative case, and accusative n?s stressed.

Pronoun

nos

1. nominative of nos: we
2. prepositional of nos: us

Descendants

• Spanish: nos (archaic or dialectal)
• Spanish: nosotros

Etymology 2

From Latin n?s, in the accusative case unstressed, and dative n?b?s.

Pronoun

nos

1. accusative of nos: us
2. dative of nos: to us, for us

Descendants

• Spanish: nos

Etymology 3

Contraction of no (“not”) and se (“him/her/itself, themselves”).

Contraction

nos

1. not ... (to oneself)

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese nós and Kabuverdianu anos.

Pronoun

nos

1. we, first person plural.

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nos?, from Proto-Indo-European *néh?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?s/

Noun

nos m inan (diminutive nosek, augmentative nochal or nosisko)

1. nose

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) nosowy
• (nouns) nochal, nosacz, nosal

Further reading

• nos in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• nos in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /nu?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /nus/
• Hyphenation: nos

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese nos, from Latin n?s (“we; us”), from Proto-Italic *n?s.

Pronoun

nos

1. us; objective case of nós

2. Obsolete spelling of nós

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:no.

See also

Etymology 2

From Old Portuguese nos, clipping of enos, from en (“in”) + os (“the”).

Contraction

nos

1. Contraction of em os (“in the”).
   • 2000, J. K. Rowling, Lya Wyler, Harry Potter e o Prisioneiro de Azkaban, Rocco, page 55:

     [...] o gato ronronava feliz nos braços de Hermione.

     [...] the cat was purring happily on Hermione's arms.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:no.

Etymology 3

Pronoun

nos

2. Alternative form of os (third-person masculine plural objective pronoun) used as an enclitic following a verb form ending in a nasal vowel or diphthong

Sardinian

Etymology

From Latin n?s, from Proto-Italic *n?s, from the oblique case forms of Proto-Indo-European *wéy (“we”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?s/

Pronoun

nos (possessive nostru)

1. we

   Synonym: nois, nosatros

2. us

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nos?, from Proto-Indo-European *néh?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nô?s/

Noun

n?s m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (anatomy) nose

Declension

Derived terms

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nos?, from Proto-Indo-European *néh?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nos]

Noun

nos m

1. nose

Further reading

• nos in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *nos?, from Proto-Indo-European *néh?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nó?s/

Noun

n??s m inan

1. (anatomy) nose

Inflection

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish nos, from accusative Latin n?s and dative Latin n?b?s, from Proto-Italic *n?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nos/, [nos]

Pronoun

nos (object pronoun)

1. dative of nosotros: to us, for us
2. accusative of nosotros: us
3. (reflexive) reflexive of nosotros: ourselves; each other
4. (archaic, formal) first person; I (singular, cf. vos)

Derived terms

References

• nos

See also

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse n?s, from Proto-Germanic *nas?, from Proto-Indo-European *néh?s-.

Noun

nos c

1. a nose of an animal

Declension

Related terms

• näsa (human nose)
• nosa
• sötnos

Anagrams

• -son, ons, sno, son

Volapük

Pronoun

nos

1. nothing

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French nos, from Latin nos.

Pronoun

nos

1. we

Related terms

• nozôtes

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *nék?ts.

Cognates include Breton noz, Cornish nos and Gaulish nox

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /no?s/

Noun

nos f (plural nosweithiau, or rarely nosau, count form noson)

1. night

Derived terms

Related terms

Western Apache

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nòs]

Noun

nos

1. manzanita plant

Usage notes

• occurs only in Dilzhe’eh (Tonto) dialect

See also

• dinos "manzanita"