Neuter, néutra, néntrum, pen. cor. trisyllabum, reste Prisciano genitiuo néutri, néutræ, néutri, & neutrius. Neither the one nor the other: neither of the two.Neuter anguis.Cic.A snake nor male, nor female.Néutram in partem moueri. Ci. To be moued neither the one way nor the other.Neuter alterum diligit.Neither of them loueth other.Neutrum ab altero separo.Quintil.I doe separate neither of them from other.Neutra alteri officit. Quint. Neither of them hurteth other.Neuter vtri inuider.Plaut.Neither enuieth other.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
neuter, tra, trum (gen. neutri, Varr. L. L. 9, 62, acc. to the MSS.; cf. 55 and 58; Aus. Ep. 50; and by grammarians always in the phrase neutri generis,
of the neuter gender
, Charis. 13 P.; Diom. 277 P. al.; Serv. Verg. A. 1, 449; dat. sing. neutrae, acc. to Prisc. p. 678.—Collat. form, NECVTER, Inscr. Orell. 4859), adj. [ne-uter], neither the one nor the other, neither of two: ut neutri illorum quisquam esset me carior, Cic. Att. 7, 1, 2: in neutram partem moveri, id. Ac. 2, 42, 130; id. Off. 2, 6, 20: debemus neutrum eorum contra alium juvare, Caes. B. C. 1, 35, 5: quid bonum sit, quid malum, quid neutrum, Cic. Div. 2, 4, 10; Ov. M. 4, 378: ita fiet ut neutra lingua alteri officiat, Quint. 1, 1, 14.—Repeated: neuter neutri invidet, Plaut. Stich. 5, 4, 49.—With verb in plur.: ut caveres, neuter ad me iretis cum querimoniā, Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 34: quia neuter consulum potuerant bello abesse, Liv. 9, 44, 2.—(b). In plur.: in quo neutrorum contemnenda est sententia, Cic. Off. 1, 21, 70: neutri alteros primo cernebant, Liv. 21, 46, 4: ita neutris cura posteritatis, Tac. H. 1, 1: in neutris partibus esse, Sen. Ira, 2, 23: neutris quicquam hostile facientibus, Just. 6, 7, 1.—II. In partic., in gram.: neutra nomina, of the neuter gender: neutra (nomina or verba),
which are neither active nor passive, middle
, Cic. Tusc. 4, 12, 28; id. Or. 46, 155; Gell. 1, 7, 15 et saep. —Hence, A.Adv.: neutrē, neutrally; in neither way: neutre, ou)dete/rws, Gloss. Philox.—B. neutrō, adv., to neither one side nor the other; to neither side, neither way: neutro inclinatā spe, Liv. 5, 26 fin.: neutro inclinaverat fortuna, Tac. H. 3, 23: si neutro litis condicio praeponderet, Quint. 7, 2, 39.
