uni-, un-

(Latin: one, single)


disunion
1. The state of being disunited; separation.
2. Lack of unity; discord.
3. A severance of union; disjunction.
disunionism
1 The termination of union; separation.
2 Disunity.
disunionist
1. Someone who advocates or causes disunion.
2. In U.S. History, a secessionist during the period of the U.S. Civil War.
disunite
1. To create or to be a source of disagreement between different people or factions within a group.
2. To divide something into smaller parts or groups, or become divided in this way.
disunited
1. Created or having been a source of disagreement between different people or factions within a group.
2. Separated or having been separated; set at variance; alienated.
3. Something that has been divided into smaller parts or groups, or which became divided in this way.
disuniter
1. Someone who, or that which, disjoins or causes disunion.
2. That which sets at variance or alienates.
disunity, disunities
1. A lack of unity within a group; especially, one caused by a disagreement or a difference of opinion.
2. A lack of unity or accord; usually resulting from dissension.
E pluribus unum
"One out of many." "Out of many (is) One." "From many, (comes) One."

Used as the motto of the United States, indicating that a single nation was made by uniting many states.

Monopolia dicitur, cum unus solus aliquod genus mercature universum emit, pretium ad suum libitum statuens.
It is said to be a monopoly when one person alone buys up the whole of one kind of commodity, fixing a price at his own pleasure.

A legal statement.

onion (s), onions (pl)
1. A rounded edible bulb with hard pungent flesh in concentric layers beneath a flaky brown skin eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable.
2. Etymology: from about 1130, from Anglo-French, "union"; from Old French oignon (formerly, also oingnon), from Latin unionem a colloquial, rustic, Roman term for "a kind of onion"; also "pearl"; literally meaning is "one, unity".

The sense connection is the successive layers of an onion, in contrast with garlic or cloves.

oniony
Similar to or like an onion; onion-like.
reunion
reunite
reunitedly
testis unus, testis nullus
One witness, no witness.

According to this statement, unsupported testimony is no better than complete absence of testimony and so, supposedly, we should not give full credence to a story we hear from just one source.


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