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English

Alternative forms

• nummer (dialectal)
• numbre (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From Middle English number, nombre, numbre, noumbre, from Anglo-Norman noumbre, Old French nombre, from Latin numerus (“number”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to divide”). Compare Saterland Frisian Nummer, Nuumer, West Frisian nûmer, Dutch nummer (“number”), German Nummer (“number”), Danish nummer (“number”), Swedish nummer (“number”), Icelandic númer (“number”). Replaced Middle English ?etæl and rime, more at tell, tale and rhyme.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: n?m?b?r, IPA^(key): /?n?mb?/
• (General American) enPR: n?m?b?r, IPA^(key): /?n?mb?/
• Rhymes: -?mb?(?)
• Hyphenation: num?ber

Noun

number (plural numbers)

1. (countable) An abstract entity used to describe quantity.

2. (countable) A numeral: a symbol for a non-negative integer.

   Synonyms: scalar, (obsolete) rime

3. (countable, mathematics) An element of one of several sets: natural numbers, integers, rational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, and sometimes extensions such as hypercomplex numbers, etc.

4. (Followed by a numeral; used attributively) Indicating the position of something in a list or sequence. Abbreviations: No or No., no or no. (in each case, sometimes written with a superscript "o", like Nº or ?). The symbol "#" is also used in this manner.

5. Quantity.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates

     Number itself importeth not much in armies where the people are of weak courage.

6. A sequence of digits and letters used to register people, automobiles, and various other items.

7. (countable, informal) A telephone number.
   • 2001, E. Forrest Hein, The Ruach Project, Xulon Press, page 86:

     “[...] I wonder if you could get hold of him and have him call me here at Interior. I’m in my office, do you have my number?”

   • 2007, Lindsey Nicole Isham, No Sex in the City: One Virgin's Confessions on Love, Lust, Dating, and Waiting, Kregel Publications, page 111:

     When I agreed to go surfing with him he said, “Great, can I have your number?” Well, I don’t give my number to guys I don’t know.

   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Marsha's work number is 555-8986.

8. (grammar) Of a word or phrase, the state of being singular, dual or plural, shown by inflection.

   Synonym: numeral

9. (now rare, in the plural) Poetic metres; verses, rhymes.
10. (countable) A performance; especially, a single song or song and dance routine within a larger show.

11. (countable, informal) A person.
    • 1968, Janet Burroway, The dancer from the dance: a novel, Little, Brown, page 40:

      I laughed. "Don't doubt that. She's a saucy little number."

    • 1988, Erica Jong, Serenissima, Dell, page 214:

      "Signorina Jessica," says the maid, a saucy little number, "your father has gone to his prayers and demands that you come to the synagogue at once [...]"

    • 2005, Denise A. Agnew, Kate Hill & Arianna Hart, By Honor Bound, Ellora's Cave Publishing, page 207:

      He had to focus on the mission, staying alive and getting out, not on the sexy number rubbing up against him.

12. (countable, informal) An item of clothing, particularly a stylish one.
    • 2007, Cesca Martin, Agony Angel: So You Think You've Got Problems..., Troubador Publishing Ltd, page 134:

      The trouble was I was wearing my backless glittering number from the night before underneath, so unless I could persuade the office it was National Fancy Dress Day I was doomed to sweat profusely in bottle blue.

    • 2007, Lorelei James, Running with the Devil, Samhain Publishing, Ltd, page 46:

      "I doubt the sexy number you wore earlier tonight fell from the sky."

13. (slang, chiefly US) A marijuana cigarette, or joint; also, a quantity of marijuana bought form a dealer.
    • 2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage 2010, page 12:

      Back at his place again, Doc rolled a number, put on a late movie, found an old T-shirt, and sat tearing it up into short strips […]

14. (dated) An issue of a periodical publication.

    the latest number of a magazine

15. A large amount, in contrast to a smaller amount; numerical preponderance.
    • 1980, May 10, Al King "Braves travel to New England with reputation", The Indiana Gazette

      Despite last week's woes, the Braves still sport numbers that would make Christie Brinkley blush.

16. (informal, always indefinite) A large amount of damage

    • (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

number (third-person singular simple present numbers, present participle numbering, simple past and past participle numbered)

1. (transitive) To label (items) with numbers; to assign numbers to (items).

   Number the baskets so that we can find them easily.

2. (intransitive) To total or count; to amount to.

   I don’t know how many books are in the library, but they must number in the thousands.

See also

• (grammatical numbers): singular, dual, trial, quadral, paucal, plural

References

• number on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Derived terms

• number among

Translations

See also

• Wiktionary’s Appendix of numbers

Etymology 2

From numb + -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: n?m'?, IPA^(key): /?n?m?/
• (US): enPR: n?m'?r, IPA^(key): /?n?m?/
• Hyphenation: num?ber

Adjective

number

1. comparative form of numb: more numb

Anagrams

• numbre, renumb

Estonian

Etymology

From German Nummer. The added -b- is analoguous to kamber and klamber.

Noun

number (genitive numbri, partitive numbrit)

1. number

Declension

Middle English

Noun

number

1. Alternative form of nombre

Papiamentu

Etymology

From English number.

An analogy of the Papiamentu word nòmber "name".

Noun

number

1. number

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"