nec non
Latin
Alternative forms
- necnōn, neque nōn
Etymology
From nec (“and not, nor”) + nōn (“not”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /nek noːn/, [nɛk noːn]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /nek non/, [nɛk nɔn]
Conjunction
nec nōn
- and also, and indeed, and certainly, not to mention
- 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Rerum Rusticarum 3.14:
- Certe, inquit Merula; nam ibi vidi greges magnos anserum, gallinarum, columbarum, gruum, pavonum, nec non glirium, piscium, aprorum, ceterae venationis.
- “Certainly,” said Merula, “for I saw there great flocks of geese, chickens, pigeons, cranes, peacocks, not to mention sparrows, fish, boar, and other game.”
- Certe, inquit Merula; nam ibi vidi greges magnos anserum, gallinarum, columbarum, gruum, pavonum, nec non glirium, piscium, aprorum, ceterae venationis.
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 12.22–23:
- sunt tibi regna patris Dauni, sunt oppida capta
multa manu, nec non aurumque animusque Latino est- You have the realms of your father Daunus, the many towns
taken by your hand, and Latinus also has gold and spirit
- You have the realms of your father Daunus, the many towns
- sunt tibi regna patris Dauni, sunt oppida capta
- 348 CE – c. 413 CE, Prudentius, Psychomachia 518–19:
- [ingenia] docta, indocta simul, bruta et sapientia, nec non
casta, incesta meae patuerunt pectora dextrae- The learned and the unlearned alike, the stupid and the wise, and also
the pure and the impure, have given themselves up to my hand
- The learned and the unlearned alike, the stupid and the wise, and also
- [ingenia] docta, indocta simul, bruta et sapientia, nec non
Usage notes
The nec and nōn can be separated, as in Cicero, Pro Milone 32.86: “nec vero non eadem ira deorum” (“and certainly also the same anger of the gods”). When adjacent, they are occasionally spelled as one word, necnōn.
References
- “necnon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nec”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nec in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “neque” on page 1172 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82): “nec (rarely neque) non (usu. juxtaposed and sts. written as one wd.)”