nulla

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.

From Latin nūlla, feminine of nūllus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈnulːɒ]

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• 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.

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

• Symbol: N
• nūllae

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: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnuːl.la]
• nūlla: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnul.la]
• nūllā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnuːl.laː]
• nūllā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnul.la]

nūlla (genitive nūllae); first-declension adjective (masculine and neuter forms identical to feminine forms) (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 numeral (masculine and neuter forms identical to feminine forms) (Medieval Latin, mathematics)

1. zero

First-declension adjective (masculine and neuter forms identical to feminine forms).

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

1. the number zero
2. nothing

First-declension noun.

• nullus
• nihil

• → Italian: nulla
• → Hungarian: nulla

nūlla

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

nūlla

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

nūllā

1. ablative feminine singular of nūllus

nūllā

1. ablative feminine singular of nūllus

• nullene

nulla m or n

1. definite neuter plural of null

• nullane

nulla m or n

1. definite neuter plural of null

• nul (Sursilvan)
• nola, nula (Sutsilvan)
• nolla (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader)

From Latin nullus.

nulla

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) zero