1. nĕc — Lewis & Short
nĕc,
I conj., v. neque.
The corpus record — Latin
néc
néc
conj., v. neque
Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Rudens 8 · 6.74/10k
- Casina 3 · 3.86/10k
- Pseudolus 3 · 2.71/10k
- Cistellaria 1 · 1.91/10k
- Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k
- Mercator 1 · 1.17/10k
- Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
- Menaechmi 1 · 1.05/10k
- Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k
- Bacchides 1 · 1.01/10k
- Pro P. Sestio 1 · 0.6/10k
- De Officiis 1 · 0.3/10k
What it meant
2. nĕc — Lewis & Short
nĕc, an inseparable negative parti. cle in compounds for
I nĕ: necopinans, necopinus; also in nĕgotium for nec-otium, and in neglego for nec-lego; and with suppressed c and lengthened ē: nēquaquam, nēquiquam.
In the wild
- néc Plautus, Pseudolus 4.7
- néc Plautus, Rudens 1.4
- néc Plautus, Rudens 1.3
- néc Plautus, Rudens 3.3
- néc Plautus, Rudens 1.3
- néc Plautus, Aulularia 2.1
6 of 23 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. nec (scan p. 401; entry #6379). Root candidates: *mag-.
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