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nusquam

nusquam · adv

nowhere, in no place

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Where it lives

Iphicrates 1 · 24.45/10k
De Spectaculis 5 · 7.86/10k
Miltiades 1 · 7.5/10k
Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Pseudolus 7 · 6.32/10k
De Senectute 5 · 6.05/10k
De Pallio 2 · 5.84/10k
Achilleis 4 · 5.55/10k
De Otio 1 · 5.1/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Postumo 2 · 4.91/10k
Ad Uxorem 2 · 4.81/10k
Adversus Valentinianos 3 · 4.71/10k

Densest 12 of 168 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

nusquam — Lewis & Short

nusquam, adv.ne-usquam,

I nowhere, in no place.

I Lit.: nusquam invenio Naucratem, Plaut. Am. 4, 1, 6: fratrem nusquam invenio gentium, Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 1; Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 73: sive est illa scripta uspiam, sive nusquam, Cic. Leg. 1, 15, 42; Liv. 1, 38; Verg. A. 4, 373: nolite arbitrari me, cum a vobis discessero, nusquam aut nullum fore, Cic. Sen. 22, 79 et saep.: nusquam non, everywhere, Plin. 24, 1, 1, § 1: nusquam alibi, nowhere else, Cic. Ac. prooem. 2, 32, 103; Liv. 39, 38, 1; 43, 9, 4: nusquam quidquam, nothing whatever, Plaut. As. 3, 3, 41.—

II Transf.

A On no occasion, nowhere, in nothing: nusquam equidem quicquam deliqui, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 30: praestabo sumptum nusquam melius poni posse, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2.—

B With verbs of motion, no whither, to no place, Plaut. Mil. 2, 5, 43; Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 50: nusquam abeo, id. Ad. 2, 2, 38; Auct. Her. 2, 2, 3.—

2 To or for nothing: ut ad id omnia referri oporteat, ipsum autem nusquam, Cic. Fin. 1, 9, 29: plebem nusquam alio natam, quam ad serviendum, Liv. 7, 18; so, nusquam alio, id. 4, 54, 7.—

C Nusquam esse, not to exist, not to be (mostly poet. and in postclass. prose), Plaut. Mil. 4, 4, 62: ergo nunc Dama sodalis Nusquam est, Hor. S. 2, 5, 101; Dig. 47, 2, 38; Cic. Tusc. 1, 6, 11.

In the wild

6 of 525 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. nusquam (scan p. 456; entry #7347).

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