nonnemo

Latin

Etymology

From nōn (“not”) +‎ nēmō (“nobody”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /noːnˈneː.moː/, [noːnˈneːmoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /nonˈne.mo/, [nonˈnɛːmo]

Noun

nōnnēmō m sg or f sg (genitive nōnnēminis); third declension

1. some persons, some, several, someone, a certain person, one man
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations‎^[1]:

     Non nemo etiam in illo sacrario rei publicae, in ipsa, inquam, curia non nemo hostis est.

     There are even some in this sacred temple of the republic, in the actual, I say, senate-house some enemies are.

   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations‎^[2]:

     Video de istis qui se popularis haberi volunt, abesse non neminem, ne de capite videlicet civium Romanorum sententiam ferat.

     I see that of those [men] who wish to be considered attached to the people, one man is absent, that they may not seem forsooth to give a vote about the lives of Roman citizens.

2. a few

Usage notes

• nonnemo is often split up into "nōn nēmō"

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	nōnnēmō
genitive	nōnnēminis
dative	nōnnēminī
accusative	nōnnēminem
ablative	nōnnēmine
vocative	nōnnēmō

In Classical Latin, the suppletive genitive nōnnūllīus and ablatives nōnnūllō (masculine) and nōnnūllā (feminine) frequently occur.

References

• “nonnemo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nonnemo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.