nullo
English
Etymology
From null + -oCategory:English terms suffixed with -o#NULLO.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈnʌ.ləʊ/Category:English 2-syllable words#NULLOCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#NULLO
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈnʌ.loʊ/Category:English 2-syllable words#NULLOCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#NULLO
- Rhymes: -ʌləʊCategory:Rhymes:English/ʌləʊ#NULLOCategory:Rhymes:English/ʌləʊ/2 syllables#NULLO
Noun
nullo (plural nullos)Category:English lemmas#NULLOCategory:English nouns#NULLOCategory:English countable nouns#NULLOCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#NULLOCategory:Pages with entries#NULLOCategory:Pages with 3 entries#NULLO
- (card gamesCategory:en:Card games#NULLO) 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, [etc.]., 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 ...Category:English terms with quotations#NULLO
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#NULLO
- (neologismCategory:English neologisms#NULLO) One 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.Category:English terms with quotations#NULLO
See also
Further reading
nullo (body modification) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Italian
Etymology
From LatinCategory:Italian terms derived from Latin#NULLO nūllus (“no, none”)Category:Italian undefined derivations#NULLO.
Pronunciation
Determiner
nullo (feminine nulla, masculine plural nulli, feminine plural nulle)Category:Italian lemmas#NULLOCategory:Italian determiners#NULLOCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#NULLOCategory:Pages with entries#NULLOCategory:Pages with 3 entries#NULLO
- (archaicCategory:Italian terms with archaic senses#NULLO, literaryCategory:Italian literary terms#NULLO, 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. […] »Category:Italian terms with quotations#NULLO
- 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. […] »
- 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 […]
- (mathematicsCategory:it:Mathematics#NULLO) null; equating zero
- La somma algebrica di due numeri opposti è nulla. ― The algebraic sum of two opposite numbers is null.Category:Italian terms with usage examples#NULLO
- (lawCategory:it:Law#NULLO) null, null and void
- Synonyms: illegittimo, invalido
- Il contratto è stato dichiarato nullo. ― The contract has been deemed null and void.Category:Italian terms with usage examples#NULLO
Synonyms
Pronoun
nullo m (invariable)Category:Italian lemmas#NULLOCategory:Italian pronouns#NULLOCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#NULLOCategory:Pages with entries#NULLOCategory:Pages with 3 entries#NULLO (obsoleteCategory:Italian obsolete terms#NULLO, literaryCategory:Italian literary terms#NULLO)
- 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. […] »Category:Italian terms with quotations#NULLO
- « […] 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
Etymology
Adverbial ablative from nūllus.
Pronunciation
Adverb
nūllō (not comparable)Category:Latin lemmas#NULLOCategory:Latin adverbs#NULLOCategory:Latin uncomparable adverbs#NULLOCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#NULLOCategory:Pages with entries#NULLOCategory:Pages with 3 entries#NULLO (post-Augustan)
- synonym of nihilō
See also
Pronoun
nūllōCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#NULLOCategory:Latin pronoun forms#NULLOCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#NULLOCategory:Pages with entries#NULLOCategory:Pages with 3 entries#NULLO
Determiner
nūllōCategory:Latin non-lemma forms#NULLOCategory:Latin determiner forms#NULLOCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#NULLOCategory:Pages with entries#NULLOCategory:Pages with 3 entries#NULLO