different between nym vs num

For “nyms”, semantic relations in Wiktionary, see Wiktionary:Semantic relations.

English

Etymology

Clipping of pseudonym.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

nym (plural nyms)

1. (Internet) A pseudonym used when posting messages.

Related terms

• nymshift
• nymshifter
• nymshifting
• nymwars

See also

• -nym
• -onym

Anagrams

• myn

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