FromFrenchné, fromOld Frenchné, fromLatinnātus, perfect active participle ofnāscor(“I am born”).Doublet ofnada.
né (notcomparable)
- (uncommon, usually italicised)Used when giving the former name of a man.
- Coordinate terms:nés,née,nées
Sting,né Gordon Sumner
Borrowed fromAfrikaansnee.
né
- (South Africa) Yeah? not so? hey?
so I saw this girlné, and I wanted to talk to her...
Inherited fromOld Frenchné, fromLatinnātus, from earliergnātus, fromProto-Italic*gnātos, fromProto-Indo-European*ǵn̥h₁tós(“begotten, produced”), derived from the root*ǵenh₁-(“to beget, give birth”).
né (femininenée,masculine pluralnés,feminine pluralnées)
- pastparticiple ofnaître
Hispanic pronunciation.
né
- (nonstandard)alternative form ofne
né (lexical tone unattested)
- Marker of focus,postposed
- Fôŋkámné gɔtí tsʉ́ ŋkədé. ―[It is] Fokam [who] will eat a banana.
- Minette Corrine Mokam Foko (2020),The Morphosyntax of Ghɔmáláʼ Verbs: Focus on Inherent Complement Verbs and Serial Verb Constructions
Clipping ofnézd, the second-person singular subjunctive definite ofnéz(“to look”).
né
- (folksy)look!,see!(expressing surprise or wanting to get attention)
- -né(“Mrs, wife of”,suffix)
- (“look!”):né 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.
- (regional form of the interjectionne):né , usually as part of the phraseNe te ne,ne te né, orné te né!, redirecting to(3):ne 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.
FromOld Norsené, fromProto-Germanic*nehw.
né
- nor (used withhvorki meaning "neither")
Ég er hvorki svangurné þyrstur.- I'm neither hungrynor thirsty.
Maðurinn hennar er hvorki klárnéhnyttinn.- Her husband is neither smartnorwitty.
né
- with
FromLatinnec.[1]
né
- nor
2020,Pop X, “D'Annunzio”, inAntille [Antilles]:E ballando, si mise a scrivere parole magiche e pensieri senza sensoné attitudine- And dancing, he began to write magical words and thoughts without meaningnor aptitude
- neither …nor
2015,Calcutta, “Gaetano”, inMainstream:Volevo avere dei figli,né troppiné pochi,né tardiné domani- I wanted to have children,neither too many,nor [too] few,neither [too] late,nor [already] tomorrow
- ^Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951; headwordné
- ^né inLuciano Canepari,Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
né (ne2,Zhuyinㄋㄜˊ)
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of哪
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of那
FromOld Frenchnoi and its variants, fromLatinnix, nivem.
né f (uncountable)
- (Jersey)snow
né m
- alternative form ofnièr
FromLatinnātus.
né (oblique and nominative feminine singularnee)
- pastparticiple ofnaistre
FromProto-Norseᚾᛁ(ni), fromProto-Germanic*ne, fromProto-Indo-European*né(“not”). The word can be seen in fossilized prefixes such asnǫkkurr,neinn (né einn). It is still part of the core lexicon in modern Icelandic, it is used when negating conjunctions similar to Englishnor. Its cognates in the Old West/East Germanic languages areOld Englishne,Old Frisianne,ni,Old Saxonne,ni,Old Dutchne,Old High Germanni,Gothic𐌽𐌹(ni).
né
- (archaic)not
- Synonyms:eigi,-at
As can be seen in the Vǫluspá lineǪnd þauné átto, óð þauné hǫfðo (Spirit they possessed not, sense they had not),né precedes the verb it modifies. This is unlike the synonymseigi and-at, which follow it, but just like the cognates in the other old Germanic languages.
FromProto-Germanic*nehw(“nor”), cognate withGothic𐌽𐌹𐌷(nih). From*ne(“not”) +*-hw(“and”).
né
- nor
Contraction ofnão é.
né?
- (colloquial, interrogatory)contraction ofnão é(“is not”), used as atag question to ask for someone's opinion:isn't it (so);innit;right
Você já comeu,né?- You have already eaten,right?
- (colloquial, often interrogatory)Expresses that something is obvious; commonly spoken with emphasis;duh;obviously
Do que é feito um anel de diamante? De diamantes,né?!- What is a diamond ring made of? Diamonds,obviously!
né
- neither,nor
né
- from
né• (你)
- (colloquial) toavoid; tododge
