num

See also: núm, num., Num., núm., n'um, nu'm, and ǂnûm

English

Noun

num (plural nums)

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

Alternative forms

• num.

Derived terms

• num lock

 

Interjection

num

1. (colloquial) Used to denote eating, or enjoyment of eating.

Alternative forms

• nom

Related terms

• nom
• num-num

Anagrams

• MUN, mun, nmu, unm., Mun., Mun

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnum/ [ˈnʊm]
• Hyphenation: num

Noun

núm m 

1. man, male
2. person, human being
3. mankind, humanity

Pronoun

núm

1. someone

Declension

Declension of núm
absolutive	núm
predicative	númu
subjective	núm
genitive	numtín
Postpositioned forms l-case númul k-case númuk t-case númut h-case númuh

Derived terms

• (diminutive): numóyta

See also

• labhá (“men”)

References

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “num”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• 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 *nū (“now”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /num/, [nʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate 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 īnsula est? — Nōn est īnsula.

   Sparta is not an island, is it? — It's not an island.

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.369–370:

     “Num flētū ingemuit nostrō? Num lūmina flexit?
     Num lacrimās victus dedit, aut miserātus amantem est?”

     “Was he troubled by our tears? Did he [even] turn his eyes [to notice]? Has he been taken [by love and] shed tears, or pitied the one who loved him?”
     (The anaphora of the three “nums” marks an ascending tricolon or tricolon crescens. Dido refers to herself using the “majestic plural” or “royal we”: nostro; and Dido uses third person singular verbs to question the actions of Aeneas who is standing before her.)

3. (in an indirect question) whether

Derived terms

• numne
• numquid
• nunc

See also

• nōnne

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.
  • morning, noon, evening, night: tempus matutīnum, meridianum, vespertinum, nocturnum
    

Livonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *nummi. Cognates include Finnish nummi.

Noun

num

1. heather

Old French

Noun

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

1. Alternative form of nom

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• n'um (dated)
• nũ (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈnũ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈnũ/

• Rhymes: -ũ
• Hyphenation: num

Etymology 1

Contraction

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

1. Contraction of em um (“in a (masculine)”).
   • 2003, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix [Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix] (Harry Potter; 5), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 400:

     Não devia estar num quarto particular?

     Shouldn't he be in a private room?

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.

Romansch

Alternative forms

• nom (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

Etymology

From Latin nōmen, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥ (“name”).

Noun

num m (plural nums)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) name

Sumerian

Romanization

num

1. Romanization of 𒉏 (num)