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"N" Word Origins

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“N” Word Origins

From non- + attendance.

From non- + attender.

From non- + bellicose.

From non- + belligerent.

From non- + borrower.

From non- + calculable.

From non- + cancerous.

From non- + carbonated.

From a Middle English rebracketing of "for then anes" ("for the one occasion"). The cryptography sense is often explained as short for "number used once," though that may be a later reinterpretation.

Borrowed from French nonchalance.

From French nonchalant, built from non- ("not") and Latin calere ("to be warm") — literally, "not warming up" about something.

From non- + churchly.

From non- + clergy.

From non- + clinical.

Shortening of non-commissioned.

From non- + committal.

From non- + commonality.

From non- + community.

noncompensation

From non- + compensation.

From non- + compliant.

From non- + computation.

From non- + computing.

From non- + conform.

From non- + conformity.

nonconsolidated

From non- + consolidated.

noncontemporary

From non- + contemporary.

From non- + contingency.

From non- + continuous.

From non- + crime.

From non- + critical.

From non- + database.

From non- + deductible.

From non- + depository.

From non- ("not") plus descript, from Latin descriptus ("described").

From non- + destructive.

From non- + device.

From non- + digital.

nondisciplinary

From non- + disciplinary.

From non- + disclosure.

From non- + displayed.

From non- + disposable.

From non- + drinker.

From non- + durable.

From Old English nan, "not one," combining ne ("not") and one.

From non- + electrified.

From non- + empirical.

From non- + employed.

From non- + equilibrium.