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Latin
Etymology
From omnia (“all things”) + -īnus (“-ine: forming adjectives”) + -ō (“-ly: forming adverbs”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
omnīnō (not comparable)
- in all things, in all ways, entirely, utterly, altogether, wholly
Omnes omnia omnino doceantur.- All people should be entirely taught all things.
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.330:
- “ nōn equidem omnīnō captā ac dēserta vidērer.”
- “, at least for me, I would not feel so utterly taken and abandoned.”
- (with numerals) in all, altogether, only, just
Quīnque omnīnō fuērunt.- They were five in all.
Erant omnīnō itinera duo.- There were only two ways.
- (with negatives) in any thing, in any way, at all
Sī probāre possēmus Ligārium in Āfricā omnīnō nōn fuisse.- If we could prove that Ligarius was not at all in Africa.
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References
- “omnino”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “omnino”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- omnino in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to not say a word: nullum (omnino) verbum facere
- not to trouble oneself about a thing: nihil omnino curare
- omnino in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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