aucun
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Etymology
From Old French alcun, from Vulgar Latin *alicunus, from Latin aliquī + unus.[1]
Cognate with Italian alcuno, Spanish alguno, Galician algún, Portuguese algum.
Pronunciation
Determiner
aucun m (feminine aucune, masculine plural aucuns, feminine plural aucunes)
- (with ne) no, none, not any
- Il n’a aucun désir de construire des temples.
- He has no desire to build temples.
Usage notes
- The plural forms aucuns and aucunes are now uncommon and are only used with pluralia tantum (e.g. aucuns frais "no fees," as frais has no singular), nouns that change meaning in the plural, and multiple things considered together (e.g. aucuns deux lieux "no two places").
Derived terms
Descendants
- Saint Dominican Creole French:
- Haitian Creole: okenn
Pronoun
aucun m (feminine aucune)
References
- Dauzat, Albert with Jean Dubois, Henri Mitterand (1964) “aucun”, in Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique (in French), Paris: Librairie Larousse
Further reading
- “aucun”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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