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nulla (plural nullas)

  1. Alternative form of nullah (“stream-bed, ravine”).
  2. Alternative form of nulla-nulla (“Australian war club”).
    • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XX, [1]
      I gave a loud cry and was in the act of running towards the centre of the camp when I caught a glimpse of several black figures around me, and the next moment I was knocked senseless by a blow from a nulla or waddy.
Hungarian numbers (edit)
0 1  →  10  → 
    Cardinal: nulla, zéró
    Nominal: nullás
    Ordinal: nulladik
    Adverbial: nullaszor

Borrowed from Latin nūlla, feminine of nūllus.

  • IPA(key): [ˈnulːɒ]
  • Hyphenation: nul‧la
  • Rhymes: -lɒ

nulla

  1. zero

nulla (plural nullák)

  1. zero (digit)
    A billiót tizenkét nullával írják. ― One billion has twelve zeros [in the long scale].
  2. a nobody, a zero (someone or something of no importance)
    Egy nagy nulla vagy! ― You are an absolute nobody.

nulla (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) zero, none whatsoever, none at all
    Nulla tehetségem van a zenéhez. ― I have zero talent for music.
  • nulla in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

    Inherited from Latin nūlla, feminine singular and neuter plural (collective) of nūllus.

    • IPA(key): /ˈnul.la/
    • Rhymes: -ulla
    • Hyphenation: nùl‧la

    nulla

    1. feminine singular of nullo

    nulla

    1. nothing, anything

    nulla m (invariable)

    1. nothing

    nulla

    1. nothing, anything
    Latin numbers (edit)
    [Term?]
    0     		1  →  10  → [a], [b]
        Cardinal: nihil, nīl, nūllus, nūlla

    First used by Dionysius Exiguus in a manuscript from 525 AD to assist in date-reckoning; extensively used by Bede. By surface analysis, nūllus +‎ -a (abstract suffix) used adjectivally.

    nūlla

    1. inflection of nūllus:
      1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
      2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
    2. ablative feminine singular of nēmō
    • Insular Romance:
    • Italo-Romance:

    nūlla

    1. inflection of nūllus:
      1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
      2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

    nūlla (genitive nūllae); first-declension one-termination adjective (Medieval Latin)

    1. no

      • 672 CE – 735 CE, Beda Presbyter, Omeliarum euangelii libros II 2.2:

        Millenarius autem numerus ultra quem nulla nostra conputatio succrescit plenitudinem rerum de quibus agitur indicare consueuit...
        The number one thousand, beyond which no calculation of ours extends, customarily indicates the fulness of the things which are under consideration...

    nūlla (genitive nūllae); first-declension one-termination numeral (Medieval Latin, mathematics)

    1. zero
      Alternative form: (numeral) N

    First-declension one-termination adjective.

    nūlla m (genitive nūllae); first declension (Medieval Latin, mathematics)

    1. the number zero
    2. nothing

    First-declension noun.

    nūllā

    1. ablative feminine singular of nūllus

    nūllā

    1. ablative feminine singular of nūllus

    nulla m or n

    1. definite neuter plural of null

    nulla m or n

    1. definite neuter plural of null
    Romansh cardinal numbers
    0 1  > 
        Cardinal : nulla

    From Latin nullus.

    nulla

    1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) zero