Fromnull +-o.
nullo (pluralnullos)
- (card games) A bid in which the bidder asserts that he or she will not take any tricks.
1914, Robert Frederick Foster,Encyclopedia of Games: Including All the Indoor Games Played at the Present Day,[etc.]., page26:If the adversaries of anullo revoke, the declarer can give them three of his tricks, or take 100 in honours as penalty. If he revokes, they take 100 penalty as usual. SUGGESTIONS FOR BIDDING. The dealer should never bid anullo originally ...
1916, Florence Irwin,The Complete Auction Player, page375:It takes a betternullo hand to raisenullos than to bid them. Dummy shows. A player who has once been called off fromnullos by his partner should never return to them.
- (neologism) A person who has theirgenitals (and sometimesnipples) surgically removed (nullification) as a form ofbody modification.
2014, Sheila Jeffreys,Gender Hurts, page70:This public presentation of the mutilation of the penis is not obviously very different from the forms of disassembly of the penis engaged in by male body modifiers – particularlynullos and transgenders – on the Body Modification Ezine website.
FromLatinnūllus(“no”, “none”).
nullo (femininenulla,masculine pluralnulli,feminine pluralnulle)
- (archaic, literary, chiefly in the singular)no,notany
1321,Dante Alighieri,La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published1994,Canto VII, p. 109, vv. 40-42:Ed elli a me: «Tutti quanti fuor guerci ¶ sì de la mente in la vita primaia, ¶ che con misuranullo spendio ferci.[…]»- And he to me: «All of them were asquint ¶ in intellect in the first life, so much ¶ that there with measure theyno spending made. […] »
- futile,ineffectual,vain
- Synonyms:futile,inefficace,inutile,vano
- 1353,Giovanni Boccaccio,Decamerone, G. Pickering (1825), page34, Giornata prima - Novella I:
[…] i due fratelli fecero prestamente venire medici e fanti, che lo servissero, e ogni cosa opportuna alla sua santà racquistare. Ma ogni aiuto eranullo[…]- […] the two brothers promptly fetched physicians and servants to tend him, and furnished him with all that behoved unto the recovery of his health. But every succour wasvain […]
- (mathematics)null; equatingzero
- La somma algebrica di due numeri opposti ènulla. ―The algebraic sum of two opposite numbers isnull.
- (law)null,null and void
- Synonyms:illegittimo,invalido
- Il contratto è stato dichiaratonullo. ―The contract has been deemednull and void.
nullo m (invariable)(obsolete, literary)
- no one,nobody
1321,Dante Alighieri,La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published1994,Canto V, p. 80, vv. 103-105:«[…] Amor, ch'anullo amato amar perdona, ¶ mi prese del costui piacer sì forte, ¶ che, come vedi, ancor non m'abbandona.[…]»- « […] Love, that exemptsno one beloved from loving, ¶ seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, ¶ that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me. […] »
nūllō
- ablativemasculine/neutersingular ofnūllus
nūllō
- ablativemasculine/neutersingular ofnūllus
