nego
Catalan
Pronunciation
Verb
negoCategory:Catalan non-lemma forms#NEGOCategory:Catalan verb forms#NEGOCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#NEGOCategory:Pages with entries#NEGOCategory:Pages with 8 entries#NEGO
Galician
Verb
negoCategory:Galician non-lemma forms#NEGOCategory:Galician verb forms#NEGOCategory:Galician entries with incorrect language header#NEGOCategory:Pages with entries#NEGOCategory:Pages with 8 entries#NEGO
Indonesian
Noun
nego (plural nego-nego)Category:Indonesian lemmas#NEGOCategory:Indonesian nouns#NEGOCategory:Indonesian entries with incorrect language header#NEGOCategory:Pages with entries#NEGOCategory:Pages with 8 entries#NEGO
- (slangCategory:Indonesian slang#NEGO) apocopic form of negosiasi (“negotiation”)Category:Indonesian apocopic forms#NEGO
- Synonym: runding
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈne.ɡo/, /ˈnɛ.ɡo/[1]Category:Italian 2-syllable words#NEGOCategory:Italian 2-syllable words#NEGOCategory:Italian terms with IPA pronunciation#NEGO
- Rhymes: -eɡo, -ɛɡoCategory:Rhymes:Italian/eɡo#NEGOCategory:Rhymes:Italian/eɡo/2 syllables#NEGOCategory:Rhymes:Italian/ɛɡo#NEGOCategory:Rhymes:Italian/ɛɡo/2 syllables#NEGO
- Hyphenation: né‧go, nè‧go
Etymology 1
Deverbal from negare + -oCategory:Italian deverbals#NEGOCategory:Italian terms suffixed with -o (deverbal)#NEGO.
Noun
nego m (plural neghi)Category:Italian lemmas#NEGOCategory:Italian nouns#NEGOCategory:Italian countable nouns#NEGOCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#NEGOCategory:Italian masculine nouns#NEGOCategory:Pages with entries#NEGOCategory:Pages with 8 entries#NEGO
- (archaicCategory:Italian archaic terms#NEGO or literaryCategory:Italian literary terms#NEGO) alternative form of niego (“denial, refusal”)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
negoCategory:Italian non-lemma forms#NEGOCategory:Italian verb forms#NEGOCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#NEGOCategory:Pages with entries#NEGOCategory:Pages with 8 entries#NEGO
References
- ↑ nego in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Further reading
- nego in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From ne (“not”), possibly by means of nec,[1][2] + -ō, -āre (verb-forming suffix)Category:Latin terms suffixed with -o (denominative)#NEGO.
Pronunciation
Verb
negō (present infinitive negāre, perfect active negāvī, supine negātum)Category:Latin lemmas#NEGOCategory:Latin verbs#NEGOCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#NEGOCategory:Pages with entries#NEGOCategory:Pages with 8 entries#NEGO; first conjugation
- to deny
- 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.8:
- Num negāre audēs? Quid tacēs? Convincam, sī negās. Videō enim esse hīc in Senātū quōsdam, quī tēcum ūna fuērunt.
- Surely you don’t dare to deny it? Why are you silent? I will prove it, if you deny it. For I see that there are certain men here in the Senate who were together with you [last night].
- Num negāre audēs? Quid tacēs? Convincam, sī negās. Videō enim esse hīc in Senātū quōsdam, quī tēcum ūna fuērunt.
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.333–335:
- [...] “Ego tē, quae plūrima fandō / ēnumerāre valēs, numquam, rēgīna, negābō / prōmeritam [...].”
- “I… [that is, my debts to] you – which far outnumber those you can recount in telling – never, o my queen, will I deny that you have deserved.”
- [...] “Ego tē, quae plūrima fandō / ēnumerāre valēs, numquam, rēgīna, negābō / prōmeritam [...].”
- (intransitiveCategory:Latin intransitive verbs#NEGO) to refuse, say no
- (transitiveCategory:Latin transitive verbs#NEGO) to reject, refuse, say no to (something), turn down
- 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 26.1:
- […] dum nē quem mīlitem legeret ex eō numerō quibus senātus missiōnem reditumque in patriam negāsset ante bellī fīnem.
- […] provided he did not choose any soldier from those to whom the Senate had refused discharge and a return home before the end of the war
- […] dum nē quem mīlitem legeret ex eō numerō quibus senātus missiōnem reditumque in patriam negāsset ante bellī fīnem.
- to keep from, prevent
Conjugation
1At least one use of the Old Latin "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to").
2The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
3At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “ne-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 403
- ↑ Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (1985), “nego”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 436
Further reading
- “nego”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nego”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “nego”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to refuse, reject a request: negare, more strongly denegare alicui aliquid
- to refuse, reject a request: petenti alicui negare aliquid
- to deny the existence of the gods: deos esse negare
- an atheist: qui deum esse negat
- I do not deny: non nego, non infitior
- to refuse, reject a request: negare, more strongly denegare alicui aliquid
Portuguese
Etymology 1
From negro (“negro; black”), with reduction of final unstressed cluster (common in Brazil).
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɡuCategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/eɡu#NEGOCategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/eɡu/2 syllables#NEGO
- Hyphenation: ne‧go
Noun
nego m (plural negos, feminine nega, feminine plural negas)Category:Portuguese lemmas#NEGOCategory:Portuguese nouns#NEGOCategory:Portuguese countable nouns#NEGOCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#NEGOCategory:Portuguese masculine nouns#NEGOCategory:Pages with entries#NEGOCategory:Pages with 8 entries#NEGO
- (BrazilCategory:Brazilian Portuguese#NEGO, colloquialCategory:Portuguese colloquialisms#NEGO) used as a placeholder when referring to people in general
- Nego sabe que isso é perigoso, mas não tá nem aí ― People know that's dangerous, but they don't careCategory:Portuguese terms with usage examples#NEGO
- (BrazilCategory:Brazilian Portuguese#NEGO, endearingCategory:Portuguese endearing terms#NEGO, colloquialCategory:Portuguese colloquialisms#NEGO) a lover, especially, though not exclusively, a black one
- Ganhei de presente do meu nego ― My man gave me a gift.Category:Portuguese terms with usage examples#NEGO
- (BrazilCategory:Brazilian Portuguese#NEGO, endearingCategory:Portuguese endearing terms#NEGO slangCategory:Portuguese slang#NEGO or ethnic slurCategory:Portuguese ethnic slurs#NEGO) nigga (black person)
- Synonyms: (neutral) negro, (sometimes offensive) preto
- Isso é coisa de nego ― This is something for/by niggas.Category:Portuguese terms with usage examples#NEGO
- Ei, neguin, tu foi pra festa ontem? ― Hey, my nigga, did you go to the party yesterday?.Category:Portuguese terms with usage examples#NEGO
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛɡuCategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛɡu#NEGOCategory:Rhymes:Portuguese/ɛɡu/2 syllables#NEGO
- Hyphenation: ne‧go
Verb
negoCategory:Portuguese non-lemma forms#NEGOCategory:Portuguese verb forms#NEGOCategory:Portuguese entries with incorrect language header#NEGOCategory:Pages with entries#NEGOCategory:Pages with 8 entries#NEGO
Further reading
- “nego”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “nego”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
ne- (“not”) + Proto-SlavicCategory:Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Proto-Slavic#NEGO *-go.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nêɡo/Category:Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation#NEGO
- Hyphenation: ne‧go
Conjunction
nȅgo (Cyrillic spelling не̏го)Category:Serbo-Croatian lemmas#NEGOCategory:Serbo-Croatian conjunctions#NEGOCategory:Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header#NEGOCategory:Pages with entries#NEGOCategory:Pages with 8 entries#NEGO
- (with nominative) than (in comparisons, following the comparative)
- Beograd je veći nego Zagreb. ― Belgrade is larger than Zagreb.Category:Serbo-Croatian terms with usage examples#NEGO
- (following a negation) but (see also vȅć)
- On je ne samo darovit, nego i jako marljiv. ― He is not only talented, but also very diligent.Category:Serbo-Croatian terms with usage examples#NEGO
- To nije crno, nego b(ij)elo. ― That is not black, but white.Category:Serbo-Croatian terms with usage examples#NEGO
- (linking word at the start of the sentence connecting it with the previous sentence, but changing the subject) rather
- To mi je jasno. Nego, hoćemo krenuti? ― I understand. Shall we go, rather?Category:Serbo-Croatian terms with usage examples#NEGO
- (indicates agreement) indeed, hear, hear
- Nego (što)! ― Certainly!Category:Serbo-Croatian terms with usage examples#NEGO
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
nego (Cyrillic spelling него)Category:Serbo-Croatian non-lemma forms#NEGOCategory:Serbo-Croatian noun forms#NEGOCategory:Requests for accents in Serbo-Croatian noun form entries#NEGOCategory:Serbo-Croatian entries with incorrect language header#NEGOCategory:Pages with entries#NEGOCategory:Pages with 8 entries#NEGO
Swedish
Verb
negoCategory:Swedish non-lemma forms#NEGOCategory:Swedish verb forms#NEGOCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#NEGOCategory:Pages with entries#NEGOCategory:Pages with 8 entries#NEGO
- (pre-1940) plural past indicative of niga