different between num vs nuc

English

Alternative forms

• num.

Noun

num (plural nums)

1. Abbreviation of number.
2. (grammar) Abbreviation of numeral.

Anagrams

• Mun, Mun., mun, nmu

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /num/

Noun

num m 

1. man, male

   Synonym: labháytu

2. 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)

1. now (only in the phrase etiam num)
2. (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.

3. (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

1. heather

Old French

Noun

num m (oblique plural nuns, nominative singular nuns, nominative plural num)

1. Alternative form of nom

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /n?/
• Rhymes: -?

Etymology 1

Contraction

num m (plural nuns, feminine numa, feminine plural numas)

1. 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)

1. 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

Romansch

Alternative forms

• nom (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

Etymology

From Latin n?men, from Proto-Indo-European *h?nómn? (“name”).

Noun

num m (plural nums)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) name

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nju?k/
• Hyphenation: nuc
• Rhymes: -u?k
• Homophones: neuk, nuke

Noun

nuc (plural nucs)

1. (beekeeping) A nucleus colony; a small bee colony created from a larger colony.
   • 1998, Sue Hubbell, A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them (page 110)

     I have to take brood from established hives to set up nucs, as I did the previous week […]

Alternative forms

• nuke

Anagrams

• UNC, cun, unc

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• nucu

Etymology

From Latin nux, nucis.

Noun

nuc m (plural nuts)

1. walnut tree

Related terms

• nucã

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin nux, nucis, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *knew-. In Romanian, the names of nuts or fruits are usually feminine while the names of the corresponding trees or bushes are masculine; compare p?r, prun, alun, m?r, etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nuk/

Noun

nuc m (plural nuci)

1. walnut (tree)

Declension

Derived terms

• nuc?
• nucar
• nuc?oar?

Related terms

• nucet

References

• nuc in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Tapachultec

Noun

nuc

1. water

Usage notes

• This is the form given in Johnston's vocabulary; Lehmann says the form in the Sapper-Ricke wordlists is nog.

References

• Walter Lehmann, Über die Stellung und Verwandtschaft der Subtiaba-Sprache der pazifischen Küste Nicaraguas und über die Sprache von Tapachula in Südchiapas (1915), Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 47, presenting the wordlists of Karl Sapper, Ricke, and Amado Johnston.