jamás
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Spanish jamás, an early borrowing from Old Occitan ja mais.[1] Compare Portuguese jamais and French jamais, Italian giammai.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]jamás
- never
- Synonyms: nunca, en su vida
- No lo he visto jamás.
- I've never seen it.
- ever
- El mejor libro jamás escrito.
- The best book ever written.
Derived terms
[edit]- jamás de los jamases
- nunca jamás
- para siempre jamás (“for ever and ever”)
- siempre jamás
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1991) “ya”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume VI (Y–Z), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 10
Further reading
[edit]- “jamás”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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- Spanish terms derived from Old Occitan
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