ullus

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *oinelos, diminutive of Proto-Italic *oinos (“one”), akin to Latin ūnus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈuːl.lʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈul.lus] === Determiner === ūllus (feminine ūlla, neuter ūllum); first/second-declension determiner (pronominal declension) (chiefly in the negative) any ==== Usage notes ==== Ūllus is usually found in negative sentences. It corresponds to aliquis (“some”) in affirmations. Ūllus (“any”) is typically an adjective and quisquam (“any(one)”) a pronoun, but the opposite usages are also found. In particular, with masculine nouns that referred to persons, Cicero seems to have preferred quisquam over ūllus in the nominative, genitive, and dative cases (e.g. quisquam scrīptor, cuiusquam scrīptōris, cuiquam scrīptōrī), and used both quemquam and ūllum in the accusative (e.g. quemquam scrīptōrem, ūllum scrīptōrem). ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective (pronominal declension). ūllī in the genitive singular is rare but attested in Old Latin texts such as Truculentus by Plautus ==== Derived terms ==== nūllus ==== Related terms ==== === References === === Further reading === “ullus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ullus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “ullus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. == Norwegian Nynorsk == === Noun === ullus f (definite singular ullusa, indefinite plural ullus or ullyser, definite plural ullusene or ullysene) alternative spelling of ull-lus