neg-, ne-

An electron with a negative charge, as contrasted with a positron.

1. To fail to give the proper or required care and attention to someone or something.
2. To fail to do something, especially because of carelessness or forgetfulness.
3. Etymology: from Latin neglectus, past participle of neglegere, "to make light of, to disregard"; literally, "not to pick up"; variant of neclegere, from Old Latin nec, "not" + legere, "to pick up, to select".

1. Marked by insufficient care or attention: "Her mother was a negligent housekeeper."
2. Characterized by neglect and undue lack of concern.

1. To attempt to come to an agreement on something through discussion and compromise.
2. To manage to get past or to deal with something that constitutes a hazard or obstacle: "We can negotiate these waters with a small boat when the wind is calm."
3. To transfer ownership of a financial instrument; such as, a check or security to someone else in exchange for a payment.
4. Etymology: Literally, lack of leisure.

The meaning is based on the saying: neg otium est, "There is no leisure."

1. A description of nouns and adjectives in languages; such as, Latin or German, belonging to a separate gender that is neither masculine nor feminine.
2. A gender that refers chiefly; but not exclusively, to inanimate objects; that is, neither masculine nor feminine.
3. Expressing, or designating, that which is of neither sex; such as, a neuter noun, a neuter termination, the neuter gender.
4. Having undeveloped, non-functioning, or no sexual organs.
5. To remove the testicles or ovaries of an animal.
6. Etymology: a reference to grammatical gender, "neither masculine nor feminine"; from Latin neuter, literally, "neither one nor the other"; from ne-, "not, no" + uter, "either (of two)"; probably a loan-translation of Greek oudeteros, "neither, neuter". In the 16th century, it had the sense of "taking neither side, being neutral."

The verb "to neuter" is from about 1903, from the adjective, originally in reference to pet cats.

1. To eliminate both the male and female gender in an attempt to create an androgynous utopian society.
2. To remove so-called "sexist words"; such as, "man" and "woman" or "his" and "her" when speaking or writing.

What nature vetoes, no one can accomplish.

From Gaius Cornelius Gallus, in his Elegies. May we say that this is equivalent to "One who cannot pick up an ant and wants to pick up an elephant will some day see his folly"? -From George Herzog, in his Jabo Proverbs.