conjunction
nēve
nēve
Classical[ˈneː.wɛ]Ecclesiastical[ˈnɛː.ve]
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- and not, or not (nor)
Caesar ad Lingonas litteras nuntiosque misit, ne eos frumento neve alia re iuvarent
Caesar sent letters and emissaries to Lingonas so that they could not help them with food nor with another thing.c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 1.26
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
nē-ve or neu, adv., introduces a negative clause containing a purpose, command, or prohibition, esp. after ut, ne, etc.,
I. and not, nor, and that not, and lest: utinam ne in nemore, etc.... neve inde, etc., Enn. ap. Auct. Her. 2, 22, 34 (Trag. v. 282 Vahl.):
caveto ne quam materiam doles, neu caedas, neu tangas, nisi siccam, neu gelidam, neu rorulentam, Cato, R. R. 37; Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1: ut eam ne quis nobis minuat, neve vivus, neve mortuus, neither ... nor, id. Leg. 2, 27, 67: cohortatus est, uti suae pristinae virtutis memoriam retinerent, neu perturbarentur animo, and that not, Caes. B. G. 2, 21: ut earum rerum vis minueretur, neu ponti nocerent, id. ib. 4, 17 fin.—So after a subj. alone: ipse modo Aeneas ... adveniat, voltus neve exhorrescat amicos, Verg. A. 7, 263: hic ames dici pater atque princeps, Neu sinas Medos equitare inultos, Hor. C. 1, 2, 50.—After an imper., Verg. G. 2, 37; Ov. Tr. 1, 5, 37.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
nē-ve or neu adv.,
and not, nor, and that not, and lest: ne abs te hanc segreges neu deseras, T.: te hortor, ut maneas . . . neve pertimescas: Hic ames dici pater atque princeps, Neu sinas Medos equitare inultos, H.: discedite, neve Eripite, etc., O.: fructūs mollite colendo, Neu segnes iaceant terrae, V.
Origins
From nē + -ve.