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num

Pronunciation: [ˈnũː]

“num” is a Latin word. Its 3 meanings in English:

adverb

  1. a particle usually expecting a negation, such as: Is it? It isn’t, is it?
  2. whether
  3. now (only in the phrase etiam num)

In Latin

  1. Adverbium vel particula, quae in interrogatione recta et obliqua usurpatur.

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *nū (“now”).

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