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To: shibumi

NUMQUAM


5 posted on 09/04/2014 5:53:34 AM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: reformedliberal

“Numquam” is a simple “never.”

“Nunquam” means “Under no circumstances.”

Both could be correctly used in this phrase, but “nunquam” is more emphatic.

Source, William Whittaker’s Words:

http://www.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wordes.exe?never


7 posted on 09/04/2014 9:34:18 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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