ullus

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *oinelos, diminutive of Proto-Italic *oinos (one), akin to Latin ūnus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos.

Pronunciation

Adjective

ūllus (feminine ūlla, neuter ūllum); first/second-declension adjective (pronominal)

  1. (chiefly in the negative) any
    Lēctiō sine ūllā dēlectātiōne.
    A reading without any enjoyment.

Usage notes

  • Ūllus is usually found in negative sentences. It corresponds to aliquis (some) in affirmations.
  • Ūllus (any) is typically an adjective and quisquam (any(one)) a pronoun, but the opposite usages are also found. In particular, with masculine nouns that referred to persons, Cicero seems to have preferred quisquam over Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) in the nominative, genitive, and dative cases (e.g. quisquam scrīptor, cuiusquam scrīptōris, cuiquam scrīptōrī), and used both quemquam and ūllum in the accusative (e.g. quemquam scrīptōrem, ūllum scrīptōrem).[1]

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

References

  1. Raphaël Kühner, editor (1835) M. Tullii Ciceronis Tusculanarum disputationum libri quinque ex Orellii recensione edidit et illustravit, page 334

Further reading

  • ullus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ullus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ullus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • without doubt, beyond all doubt: sine dubio (not sine ullo dubio)
    • without any hesitation; without the least scruple: sine ulla dubitatione
    • indisputably; incontestably: sine (ulla) controversia

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

  1. Alternative spelling of ull-lus
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