The corpus record — Latin

no1

no1 · v. n

to swim, float

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Where it lives

Octavia 45 · 86.01/10k
Versus Paschales Pro Augusto Dicti 1 · 51.55/10k
Chabrias 1 · 20.45/10k
Epistularum 1 · 12.5/10k
Amphitruo 10 · 10.17/10k
Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 2 · 7.65/10k
Ad Scapulam 1 · 6.7/10k
De Inventione 21 · 6.34/10k
Rudens 7 · 5.9/10k
Mercator 5 · 5.84/10k
Ibis 2 · 5.09/10k
Alcibiades 1 · 4.95/10k

Densest 12 of 140 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. no — Lewis & Short

no, nāvi, 1, v. n.ne/w,

I to swim, float.

I Lit.: alter nare cupit: alter pugnare paratu'st, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 166 Müll. (Ann. v. 258 Vahl.): pueris, qui nare discunt, scirpea induitur ratis, Plaut. Aul. 4, 1, 9; cf. below, Hor. S. 1, 4, 120: pinus Dicuntur liquidas Neptuni nāsse per undas, Cat. 64, 1: nat lupus, Ov. M. 1, 304: nantem delphina per undas, id. H. 19, 199: piger ad nandum, id. ib. 18, 210: ars nandi, id. Tr. 2, 486: nat tibi linter, Tib. 1, 5, 76; Luc. 8, 374.—Prov.: nare sine cortice, to swim without corks, i. e. to be able to do without a guardian (cf. above the passage in Plaut. Aul. 4, 1, 9), Hor. S. 1, 4, 120.—

II Poet., transf., to sail, flow, fly, etc.: cum juventus Per medium classi barbara navit Athon, Cat. 66, 45: (undae) nantes refulgent, id. 64, 274: nare per aestatem liquidam suspexeris agmen (apium), Verg. G. 4, 59.—Of the eyes of drunken persons, to swim: nant oculi, Lucr. 3, 480; v. nato.— Hence, nans, antis, P. a., swimming, floating: nantes scaphae, Gell. 10, 26, 10; as subst., a swimmer; hence, nantes, ĭum, f., swimming fowls, i. e. geese, ducks, etc.: greges nantium, Col. 8, 14, 1.

2. No — Lewis & Short

No,

I an Egyptian city, perh. Alexandria; acc. to Bochart, Thebes, Hier. ad Ezech. 30, 14.

3. nö — Walde–Hofmann

nö (nicht nà-, s. Fleckeisen Jbb. 1867, 627) aus ide. "nu (5. nunc; Vanitek 136, Brugmann Sächs. Ber. 1890, 227) + idg. N. Sg. *djeus „Tag“ (s. dies; Brugmann I? 800, Sommer Hb.? 41. 396 Leumann-Stolz* 15. à nüdus — nügae. 185 Nicht mit idg. *diuom (bzw. *diuos) „Tag“ in triduom (Solmsen Stud. 73 zw.; wäre *nuduos); auch nicht aus *neyo-dins (Vendryes Rech. 233; s. Stolz IF. 18, 448f.). — Walde-P. II 340. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. nö, p. 1090]

4. nö — Walde–Hofmann

nö, no (air.) ,,oder'* II 150, 188, 190 no Verbalpraefix II 165 nocht (air.) II 185 nodseinn. (air.) 11559 nóib (air.) II 171 nói n (air.) II 179 nóine (air.) II 154 nömad (air.) II 179 — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. nö, p. 1916]

In the wild

6 of 487 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.