nulo

Äiwoo

Noun

nulo

1. (anatomy) neck

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Esperanto

Etymology

From German null (“zero”), Russian нуль (nulʹ, “zero”), Italian nullo, French nul, all ultimately from Latin nullus (“none, not any”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnulo]

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• Rhymes: -ulo
• Hyphenation: nu‧lo

Noun

nulo (accusative singular nulon, plural nuloj, accusative plural nulojn)

1. zero (name of the numeric symbol or digit)

   Unu miliono havas ses nulojn.

   One million has six zeroes.

2. (figurative) someone or something of no importance or capabilities

Derived terms

• nul (the numeral zero)
• nula (“equal to zero, void, without value”)

Ido

Etymology

From nula (“no, not any; nope”) +‎ -o (“thing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnulo/

Pronoun

nulo

1. nothing, nought

Related terms

• nula (“no, not any; nope”)
• nulaloke (“nowhere”)
• nulatempe (“never (again / more)”)
• nuli
• nulu (“nobody, no one, nope”)

 

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin nullus (“none”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnu.lu/

• Rhymes: -ulu
• Hyphenation: nu‧lo

Adjective

nulo (feminine nula, masculine plural nulos, feminine plural nulas)

1. null; insignificant
2. void (having lost all legal validity)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nullus (“none”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnulo/ [ˈnu.lo]
• Rhymes: -ulo
• Syllabification: nu‧lo

Adjective

nulo (feminine nula, masculine plural nulos, feminine plural nulas)

1. null, void, invalid
2. useless, good-for-nothing
3. (obsolete) none

Further reading

• “nulo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28