nor

nor

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Norwegian.

• (Received Pronunciation): enPR: nô, IPA^(key): /nɔː/
• (US) enPR: nôr, IPA^(key): /nɔɹ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophone: gnaw (in non-rhotic accents)

From Middle English nauther, from nother. Cognate with neither.

nor

1. (literary) And... not (introducing a negative statement, without necessarily following one).
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     I love your majesty / According to my bond, nor more nor less.

   • 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act II:

     Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbased myself.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Nor walk by moon, / Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.

   • 1825, Sir Walter Scott, The Talisman:

     And, moreover, I had made my vow to preserve my rank unknown till the crusade should be accomplished; nor did I mention it […]

   • 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

     Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink.

   Nor did I stop to think, but ran.

   They are happy, nor need we worry.

2. A function word introducing each except the first term of a series, indicating none of them is true.
   • 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:

     The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them […] is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.

   I am neither hungry nor thirsty nor tired.

3. Used to introduce a further negative statement.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.

   The struggle didn't end, nor was it diminished.

4. (UK, dialect) Than.
   • 1861, George Eliot, Silas Marner, London: Penguin Books, published 1967, page 131:

     'I used to think, when you first come into these parts, as you were no better nor you should be.'

   • 1967, Sleigh, Barbara, Jessamy, 1993 edition, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 92:

     I wouldn’t like to live here though, not after dark. Sooner you nor me.

   He's no better nor you.

• neither

From Etymology 1 (sense 2 above), reinterpreted as not + or or negation + or.

nor (plural nors)

1. (logic, electronics) Alternative form of NOR

• NRO, RON, Ron, orn, ron

nor

1. Alternative form of norã

• IPA^(key): /nor/, [no̞r]

From Proto-Basque *nor, containing the interrogative prefix *no-.[1]

nor

1. (interrogative) who

   Nor da? ― Who is he/she?

   Ez nekien nor zinen. ― I didn't know who you were.

   Norentzat da opari hau? ― Who is this present for?

From the interrogative pronoun.

nor (indeclinable)

1. (grammatical term, used as a modifier) (of a verb) intransitive without a dative argument

   Nor aditzak euskarazko aditzik errezenak dira. ― In Basque, nor verbs are the easiest to learn.

• "nor" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
• “nor” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

• IPA^(key): [ˈnor]

nor f

1. genitive plural of nora

Unclear, perhaps onomatopoeic, cf. brommen (“to do time”).

• IPA^(key): /nɔr/

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• Hyphenation: nor
• Rhymes: -ɔr

nor (only as singular, with definite article: de nor)

1. (informal) Jail, prison; imprisonment

   Synonyms: bajes, bak, gevangenis, lik

From Latin nubilum. Compare Romanian nor, Aromanian nior.

nor m

1. cloud

• nord (continental Normandy, Guernsey, Jersey)

From Old French norht, north, nort (“north”), from Old English norþ (“north”), from Proto-Germanic *nurþrą (“north”), from Proto-Indo-European *ner- (“lower, bottom; to sink, shrivel”).

nor m (uncountable)

1. (Sark) north

• IPA^(key): /nɔr/
• Rhymes: -ɔr
• Syllabification: nor

nor f

1. genitive plural of nora

• nour (regional, Moldova)
• noor (regional, Oltenia),
• nuor, nuvăr (regional, Banat)
• nuar (archaic, obsolete)

From older nuar, nuăr, from Latin nūbilum, noun use of the neuter of the adjective nūbilus (“cloudy”), from Latin nūbēs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)newdʰ- (“to cover”). Compare Aromanian nior, Spanish nube, Italian nuvola, Friulian nûl, Portuguese nuvem, Catalan núvol.

• IPA^(key): [nor]

nor m (plural nori)

1. cloud

• (a se) înnora
• noros

From German Narr.

• IPA^(key): /nɔ́r/

nȍr (comparative bȍlj nȍr, superlative nȁjbolj nȍr)

1. crazy, insane, mad

• “nor”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

nor

1. narrow strait

• ron

Related to Finnish nuora. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

nor

1. string

nor

1. Alternative form of noor
   • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3:

     Mye thee friend ne're waant welcome, nor straayart comfoort.

     May thy friend ne'er want welcome, nor the stranger comfort.

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 100