nullo

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Etymology

null +‎ -o

Pronunciation

Noun

nullo (plural nullos)

  1. (card games) A bid in which the bidder asserts that he or she will not take any tricks.
    • 1914, Robert Frederick Foster, Encyclopedia of Games: Including All the Indoor Games Played at the Present Day, ., page 26:
      If the adversaries of a nullo revoke, the declarer can give them three of his tricks, or take 100 in honours as penalty. If he revokes, they take 100 penalty as usual. SUGGESTIONS FOR BIDDING. The dealer should never bid a nullo originally ...
    • 1916, Florence Irwin, The Complete Auction Player, page 375:
      It takes a better nullo hand to raise nullos than to bid them. Dummy shows. A player who has once been called off from nullos by his partner should never return to them.
  2. (neologism) A person who has their genitals (and sometimes nipples) surgically removed (nullification) as a form of body modification.
    • 2014, Sheila Jeffreys, Gender Hurts, page 70:
      This public presentation of the mutilation of the penis is not obviously very different from the forms of disassembly of the penis engaged in by male body modifiers – particularly nullos and transgenders – on the Body Modification Ezine website.

See also

Italian

Etymology

From Latin nūllus (“no”, “none”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnul.lo/
  • Rhymes: -ullo
  • Hyphenation: nùl‧lo

Determiner

nullo (feminine nulla, masculine plural nulli, feminine plural nulle)

  1. (archaic, literary, chiefly in the singular) no, not any
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto VII, p. 109, vv. 40-42:
      Ed elli a me: «Tutti quanti fuor guerci ¶ sì de la mente in la vita primaia, ¶ che con misura nullo spendio ferci. […] »
      And he to me: «All of them were asquint ¶ in intellect in the first life, so much ¶ that there with measure they no spending made. »
  2. futile, ineffectual, vain
    Synonyms: futile, inefficace, inutile, vano
    • 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, Decamerone, G. Pickering (1825), page 34, Giornata prima - Novella I:
      […] i due fratelli fecero prestamente venire medici e fanti, che lo servissero, e ogni cosa opportuna alla sua santà racquistare. Ma ogni aiuto era nullo […]
      the two brothers promptly fetched physicians and servants to tend him, and furnished him with all that behoved unto the recovery of his health. But every succour was vain
  3. (mathematics) null; equating zero
    La somma algebrica di due numeri opposti è nulla. ― The algebraic sum of two opposite numbers is null.
  4. (law) null, null and void
    Synonyms: illegittimo, invalido
    Il contratto è stato dichiarato nullo. ― The contract has been deemed null and void.

Synonyms

Pronoun

nullo m (invariable) (obsolete, literary)

  1. no one, nobody
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto V, p. 80, vv. 103-105:
      « […] Amor, ch'a nullo amato amar perdona, ¶ mi prese del costui piacer sì forte, ¶ che, come vedi, ancor non m'abbandona. […] »
      « Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, ¶ seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, ¶ that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me. »

Synonyms

Latin

Pronoun

nūllō

  1. ablative masculine/neuter singular of nūllus

Adjective

nūllō

  1. ablative masculine/neuter singular of nūllus
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