nullo

Italian

From Latin nūllus (“no”, “none”).

nullo (feminine singular nulla, masculine plural nulli, feminine plural nulle)

(archaic, literary, chiefly in the singular) no, not any (determiner)
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto VII, p. 109, vv. 40-42:
  Ed elli a me: «Tutti quanti fuor guerci ¶ sì de la mente in la vita primaia, ¶ che con misura nullo spendio ferci. [...]»
  And he to me: «All of them were asquint ¶ in intellect in the first life, so much ¶ that there with measure they no spending made. [...]»
futile, ineffectual, vain
- 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, Decamerone, G. Pickering (1825), page 34, Giornata prima - Novella I:
  [...] i due fratelli fecero prestamente venire medici e fanti, che lo servissero, e ogni cosa opportuna alla sua santà racquistare. Ma ogni aiuto era nullo [...]
  [...] the two brothers promptly fetched physicians and servants to tend him, and furnished him with all that behoved unto the recovery of his health. But every succour was vain [...]
(mathematics) null; equating zero
La somma algebrica di due numeri opposti è nulla. ― The algebraic sum of two opposite numbers is null.
(law) null, null and void
Il contratto è stato dichiarato nullo. ― The contract has been deemed null and void.

nullo m (invariable) (obsolete, literary)

no one, nobody
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier (1994), Canto V, p. 80, vv. 103-105:
  «[...] Amor, ch'a nullo amato amar perdona, ¶ mi prese del costui piacer sì forte, ¶ che, come vedi, ancor non m'abbandona. [...]»
  «[...] Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, ¶ seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, ¶ that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me. [...]»

nūllō

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