num

num (plural nums)

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

• num.

num

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

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• MUN, mun, nmu, unm., Mun., Mun

• IPA^(key): /ˈnum/
• Hyphenation: num

núm m 

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

núm

1. someone

• (diminutive): numóyta

• labhá (“men”)

• 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)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

• nom (Eastern Kata-viri, Kamviri)

From Proto-Nuristani *nāma, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hnā́ma, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnum/

num (Western Kata-viri)^[1]

1. name

From Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /num/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /num/,

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 turn his eyes ? Has he been taken 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

• numne
• numquid
• nunc

• nōnne

• “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • morning, noon, evening, night: tempus matutīnum, meridianum, vespertinum, nocturnum
    

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

num

1. heather

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

1. Alternative form of nom

• n'um (dated)
• nũ (obsolete)

• Rhymes: -ũ
• Hyphenation: num

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?

The contraction is never obligatory and sometimes avoided in formal written Brazilian Portuguese.^[1]

For quotations using this term, see Citations:num.

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 !

For quotations using this term, see Citations:num.

• nom (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

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

num m (plural nums)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) name

num

1. Romanization of 𒉏 (num)