The corpus record — Latin

nolo

nevis, nevolt (Jünger nón vis, nón volt), nölumus, ne voltis (noltis Lucil

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Where it lives

De Institutione Viri Boni, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 54.35/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 8-10 - 19s 1 · 49.75/10k
De Herediolo 1 · 44.84/10k
Thrasybulus 2 · 33.33/10k
Alcibiades 5 · 24.75/10k
Timoleon 2 · 24.15/10k
Epaminondas 4 · 23.97/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 9 · 23.04/10k
De Regibus 1 · 22.57/10k
Chabrias 1 · 20.45/10k
Pro Cn. Plancio 23 · 19.76/10k
Epigrammata Ausonii de diversis rebus 7 · 19.21/10k

Densest 12 of 272 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

nölö — Walde–Hofmann

nölö, nevis, nevolt (Jünger nón vis, nón volt), nölumus, ne voltis (noltis Lucil. Gegensatzbldg. zu voltis) „ich will nicht". (seit Plt.); nölo ist aus *ne volö > *novolö entstanden; vgl. nesciö nequeö usw.; nö- von nülim, nölle usw. analogisch nach nilo, nölens, nolui usw. Das Pte. Pr. ist erst in der Kaiserzeit bezeugt; nöluntäs Cl. ist zu voluntäs hinzugebildet. noii facere „wolle nicht tun“ (seit Plt.) ist eine … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. nölö, p. 1737]

In the wild

nolunt Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 56.2
nolint Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 8.10.3
noli Plautus, Trinummus 3.2
nolim Apuleius, Apologia 36
noluerunt Cicero, Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 71
noli Ovid, Tristia 4.4.28

6 of 2,186 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. nölö (scan p. 1737; entry #3324).

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