Translation
altogether; entirely
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Examples
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He said absolutely nothing.
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This is entirely true.
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There were eight of them in all.
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I do not entirely understand.
tacere .
It is altogether better to keep quiet.
is the adverb of , and it has three settings. As a plain intensifier it is "wholly, entirely". With a numeral it totals things up: , "eight in all". Standing next to a negative it becomes "at all": , "nothing whatever".
Word order decides the scope of the denial, exactly as it does with and . concedes part of the point, "I do not entirely follow", while concedes nothing, "I do not follow at all". English does the same work with stress rather than order, so the distinction is easy to flatten in translation.
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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 7: omnino, statim, aliquis and 7 more words.