nolla

Borrowed from Swedish nolla (“(the digit) zero”), from Italian nulla (“nothing”), from Latin nūlla, feminine of Latin nūllus (“none”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnolːɑ/, [ˈno̞lːɑ]
• Rhymes: -olːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): nol‧la

nolla

1. zero

nolla

1. digit zero
2. a person of little worth or usefulness, cipher, good-for-nothing
3. (electricity) neutral (electrical terminal or conductor which has zero or close to zero voltage with respect to the ground)

• nollajohdin
• nollata

Ultimately from Latin nullus.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈnolːla/

nolˈla

1. zero

This numeral needs an inflection-table template.

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

• nulla (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan)
• nul (Sursilvan)
• nola, nula (Sutsilvan)

From Latin nullus.

nolla

1. (Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) zero

From the digit noll (“zero”).

nolla c

1. a zero; the symbol, or digit, "0".
2. a zero (of a scale)
3. a loser, nobody

   Vilken nolla.

   What a loser.

4. a person who recently started university or gymnasium, and has not yet been "introduced" to the school by the older students; person taking part, as a new student, in an orientation week

   En nolla gick vilse och var borta i över två timmar.

   A fresher went wrong and was lost for over two hours.

nolla (present nollar, preterite nollade, supine nollat, imperative nolla)

1. to reset, to calibrate to zero

   Nolla mätarna och börja om.

   Reset the meters and start again.

2. to haze (initiate a new student, called nolla, noun)

   Vi ska nolla de nya studenterna.

   We're going to haze the new students.

3. (sports) to shut out, to prevent (an opponent) from scoring

• (reset): nollställa
• (haze): inkila
• (haze): insparka
• (haze): inviga

• etta, tvåa, trea, fyra, femma, sexa, sjua, åtta, nia, tia, elva, tolva
• nollning