nec non

Latin

Alternative forms

• necnōn, neque nōn

Etymology

From nec (“and not, nor”) +‎ nōn (“not”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /nek noːn/, [nɛk noːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /nek non/, [nɛk nɔn]

Conjunction

nec nōn

1. and also, and indeed, and certainly, not to mention
   • 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, Agricultural Topics 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.”

   • 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

   • 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

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.)”