no (adj.) Copy link Outline 1. nullus2. ullus, with some negative in the clause (usu. more emphatic than preced.)3. nēmo, of persons4. nĭhil, indecl. (with part. gen.) • no (adj.): 1. nullus: used both in agr. with subs., and with part. gen. (= no single): in no certain order, n. certo ordine, Caes. B. G. 2, 11: no one of the larger animals, nulla beluarum, Cic. N. D. 1, 35, 97. (N.B.--Instead of nullus vir, nullus poeta, use nemo vir, nemo poeta: no good man, vir nemo bonus, Cic. Leg. 2, 16, 41: no god nor man, nemo nec deus nec homo, id. N. D. 1, 43, extr. Also with part. gen.: no mortal man, mortalium hominum nemo, id. Verr. 2, 2, 43, fin.) 2. ullus, with some negative in the clause (usu. more emphatic than preced.): that that is no fault of mine, culpam meam non esse ullam, Pl. Merc. 3, 4, 41: no one either forbidding or inviting, nec prohibente ullo nec vocante, Liv. 5, 40, med.: doing no damage, sine ullo maleficio, Caes. B. G. 1, 7. 3. nēmo, of persons: v. supr. (1). 4. nĭhil, indecl. (with part. gen.): no strength (at all), n. virium, Liv. 2, 57: no news, n. novi, Cic. Fam. 2, 14. (N.B.--This last use is confined to adjj. of the first and second declension.) Also nihil may sometimes be used with intrans. and other verbs, where in Eng. the adj. no is used with a verbal subs.: to make no use of anything, aliqua re nihil uti, Cic. Agr. 2, 23, init.: I found no fault with you, nihil te accusavi, id. Fam. 14, 1, 6 (so, nihil habeo quod incusem senectutem, no fault to find with it, id. Sen. 5, 13: cf. L. G. § 253). Phr.: by no means, haudquaquam, minime: v. means (by no).