ullus

From Proto-Italic *oinelos, diminutive of Proto-Italic *oinos (“one”), akin to Latin ūnus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *óynos.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈuːl.lʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈul.lus]

ūllus (feminine ūlla, neuter ūllum); first/second-declension determiner (pronominal declension)

1. (chiefly in the negative) any
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.22:

     Quamquam quid loquor? Tē ut ūlla rēs frangat, tū ut umquam tē corrigās, tū ut ūllam fugam meditēre, tū ut ūllum exsilium cōgitēs?

     And yet, what am I saying? That you might be broken by any [number of] things, that you might ever correct yourself, that you might contemplate any escape, that you might think of any exile?
     (Note how the determiners agree in case, number and gender with the words they modify: ūlla rēs, accusative plural neuter; ūllam fugam, accusative singular feminine; ūllum exilium, accusative singular neuter.)

   • c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 2.7:

     lectionem sine ulla delectatione negligo.

     A reading without any enjoyment.

• Ūllus is usually found in negative sentences. It corresponds to aliquis (“some”) in affirmations.
• Ūllus (“any”) is typically an adjective and quisquam (“any(one)”) a pronoun, but the opposite usages are also found. In particular, with masculine nouns that referred to persons, Cicero seems to have preferred quisquam over ūllus in the nominative, genitive, and dative cases (e.g. quisquam scrīptor, cuiusquam scrīptōris, cuiquam scrīptōrī), and used both quemquam and ūllum in the accusative (e.g. quemquam scrīptōrem, ūllum scrīptōrem).^[1]

First/second-declension adjective (pronominal declension).

ūllī in the genitive singular is rare but attested in Old Latin texts such as Truculentus by Plautus

• nūllus

• “ullus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ullus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ullus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • without doubt, beyond all doubt: sine dubio (not sine ullo dubio)
    
  • without any hesitation; without the least scruple: sine ulla dubitatione
    
  • indisputably; incontestably: sine (ulla) controversia
    

ullus f (definite singular ullusa, indefinite plural ullus or ullyser, definite plural ullusene or ullysene)

1. alternative spelling of ull-lus