See nihil in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "adnihilō"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "nihil album"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "nihil debet"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "nihil dicit"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "nihildum"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "nihilitās"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "nihilō"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "nihilōminus"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "nonnihil"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "nicles"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ne",
"3": "hīlum",
"t1": "not",
"t2": "the least bit"
},
"expansion": "ne- (“not”) + hīlum (“the least bit”)",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From nihilum, from ne- (“not”) + hīlum (“the least bit”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-adecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "nihil",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"nominative"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"neuter"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"neuter"
]
},
{
"form": "nihil",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"neuter"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"neuter"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "nīl",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"syncope"
]
},
{
"form": "nichil",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Latin"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nihil<indecl+>",
"indecl": "1",
"nomf": "1"
},
"expansion": "nihil (indeclinable)",
"name": "la-pronoun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nihil<indecl+>",
"footnote": "The senses of the genitive, dative and ablative cases are usually rendered with forms of <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">nūllus</i> + <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">rēs</i>: genitive <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">nūllīus reī</i> <abbr title=\"feminine gender\">f</abbr>, dative <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">nūllī reī</i> <abbr title=\"feminine gender\">f</abbr>, ablative <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">nūllā rē</i> <abbr title=\"feminine gender\">f</abbr>. The genitive <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">nihilī</i> and the ablative <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">nihilō</i>, from <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">nihilum</i>, are generally not used as indefinite pronouns, but are instead reserved for idiomatic uses (<i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">nihilī</i> being used adjectivally with the sense \"worth nothing\", and <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">nihilō</i> being used in adverbial phrases like <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">dē nihilō</i> (“for no reason, without cause”) and <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">nihilō minus</i> or <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">nihilōminus</i> (“notwithstanding, none the less”)).",
"nomf": "1",
"title": "Indeclinable pronoun (used only in the nominative and accusative), singular only."
},
"name": "la-adecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "pron",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "adnihilātiō"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "adnihilātor"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
5
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
5,
12
],
[
16,
30
]
],
"english": "It's nothing/It doesn't matter.",
"text": "Nihil est.",
"translation": "It's nothing/It doesn't matter.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
5
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
0,
7
]
],
"english": "Nothing new under the sun (proverb).",
"raw_tags": [
"proverb"
],
"text": "Nihil sub sōle novum.",
"translation": "Nothing new under the sun (proverb).",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "You do nothing, you plan nothing, you think of nothing which I not only do not hear, but which I do not see and know every particular of.",
"ref": "63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.8",
"text": "Nihil agis, nihil moliris, nihil cogitas quod non ego non modo audiam sed etiam videam planeque sentiam.",
"translation": "You do nothing, you plan nothing, you think of nothing which I not only do not hear, but which I do not see and know every particular of.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"nothing"
],
"id": "en-nihil-la-pron-F4XPw7xq",
"links": [
[
"nothing",
"nothing"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(indefinite) nothing"
],
"tags": [
"indeclinable",
"indefinite"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "[Agorastocles] May gods so love me, nothing is more unfair than having a slothful friend, even more so for a man in love, who in doing anything must all expedite. So I lead them, having called them forth, the most slow-paced men of them all, slower than freight ships [corbitae] upon a quiet sea.",
"ref": "c. 194 BCE, Plautus, Poenulus 3.1.1–4",
"roman": "tardiores quam corbitae sunt in tranquillo mari.",
"text": "[Agorastocles] Ita me di ament, tardo amico nihil est quicquam inaequius,\npraesertim homini amanti, qui quidquid agit properat omnia.\nSicut ego hos duco advocatos, homines spissigradissimos,",
"translation": "[Agorastocles] May gods so love me, nothing is more unfair than having a slothful friend, even more so for a man in love, who in doing anything must all expedite. So I lead them, having called them forth, the most slow-paced men of them all, slower than freight ships [corbitae] upon a quiet sea.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 41.20",
"text": "In duabus tamen magnis honestisque rebus vere regius erat animus, in urbium donis et deorum cultu. Megalopolitanis in Arcadia murum se circumdaturum urbi est pollicitus maioremque partem pecuniae dedit; Tegeae theatrum magnificum e marmore facere instituit; cyzici in prytaneo—id est penetrale urbis, ubi publice, quibus is honos datus est, vescuntur—vasa aurea mensae unius posuit. Rhodiis ut nihil unum insigne, ita omnis generis, ut quaeque usus eorum postulaverunt, dona dedit.",
"translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"nothing"
],
"id": "en-nihil-la-pron-F4XPw7xq1",
"links": [
[
"nothing",
"nothing"
],
[
"quicquam",
"quicquam#Latin"
],
[
"quidquam",
"quidquam#Latin"
],
[
"unum",
"unum#Latin"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(indefinite) nothing",
"(with quicquam/quidquam, unum)"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with quicquam/quidquam"
],
"tags": [
"indeclinable",
"indefinite"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "0 36 0 0 64",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin terms prefixed with ne-",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
3
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
3,
6
],
[
20,
28
]
],
"english": "Cannot you think of anything?",
"text": "Nīl·ne in mentem·st?",
"translation": "Cannot you think of anything?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Nothing at all! — you! — the nightly guard on the Palatine — nothing! — the patrols of the city — nothing! — the fear of the public — nothing! — the union of good people — nothing! — this most fortified place for holding the senate — nothing! — the faces and expressions of these [senators] — has moved [you]?\n(A somewhat literal interpretation with indications for spoken emphasis to convey the rhythmical effect of a series of rhetorical questions that exemplifies anaphora.)",
"ref": "63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.1",
"text": "Nihilne tē nocturnum praesidium Palātī, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populī, nihil concursus bonōrum omnium, nihil hic mūnītissimus habendī senātūs locus, nihil hōrum ōra voltūsque mōvērunt?",
"translation": "Nothing at all! — you! — the nightly guard on the Palatine — nothing! — the patrols of the city — nothing! — the fear of the public — nothing! — the union of good people — nothing! — this most fortified place for holding the senate — nothing! — the faces and expressions of these [senators] — has moved [you]?\n(A somewhat literal interpretation with indications for spoken emphasis to convey the rhythmical effect of a series of rhetorical questions that exemplifies anaphora.)",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"nihil or nil + the enclitic particle -ne, nihilne or nilne — more emphatic in a negative sense, a stronger negative than nōn: nothing at all, not at all, none at all, not any"
],
"id": "en-nihil-la-pron-nK2kuSzV",
"links": [
[
"nothing",
"nothing"
],
[
"all",
"all"
],
[
"not",
"not"
],
[
"all",
"all"
],
[
"none",
"none"
],
[
"all",
"all"
],
[
"not",
"not"
],
[
"any",
"any"
]
],
"tags": [
"indeclinable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈni.(ɦ)ɪɫ]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈniː.kil]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "nihil"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ne",
"3": "hīlum",
"t1": "not",
"t2": "the least bit"
},
"expansion": "ne- (“not”) + hīlum (“the least bit”)",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From nihilum, from ne- (“not”) + hīlum (“the least bit”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "nīl",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"syncope"
]
},
{
"form": "nichil",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Latin"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nihil",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "nihil (not comparable)",
"name": "la-adv"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"english": "That they would neither be listening to orders nor would advance during fight, he wasn't at all moved: he knew perfectly well that so had not happened, under the command of whomsoever soldiers may have refused to comply, but good luck had failed their leader, after having badly handled some situation, or by some crime comitted they had been justly accused of covetousness.",
"ref": "c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 1.40",
"text": "Quod non fore dicto audientes neque signa laturi dicantur, nihil se ea re commoveri: scire enim, quibuscumque exercitus dicto audiens non fuerit, aut male re gesta fortunam defuisse aut aliquo facinore comperto avaritiam esse convictam.",
"translation": "That they would neither be listening to orders nor would advance during fight, he wasn't at all moved: he knew perfectly well that so had not happened, under the command of whomsoever soldiers may have refused to comply, but good luck had failed their leader, after having badly handled some situation, or by some crime comitted they had been justly accused of covetousness.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"at all, in nothing, in no respect"
],
"id": "en-nihil-la-adv-JHhSdPpo",
"links": [
[
"at all",
"at all"
]
],
"qualifier": "not",
"raw_glosses": [
"(not) at all, in nothing, in no respect"
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "0 56 0 0 44",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "9 50 9 0 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin indeclinable pronouns",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "10 50 10 0 31",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin pronouns",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "[Atticus] But why, why would you meditate over such things?\n[Marcus] Insooth, for no reason, if not that you won't take too close a look at them that be handed down in such a fashion.",
"ref": "52 BCE – 51 BCE, Cicero, De legibus Liber I.4",
"text": "[Atticus] Quorsum tandem aut cur ista quaeris?\n[Marcvs] Nihil sane, nisi ne nimis diligenter inquiras in ea quae isto modo memoriae sint prodita.",
"translation": "[Atticus] But why, why would you meditate over such things?\n[Marcus] Insooth, for no reason, if not that you won't take too close a look at them that be handed down in such a fashion.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to no purpose, in vain; for no reason, for nothing"
],
"id": "en-nihil-la-adv-yDNglW~8",
"links": [
[
"to no purpose",
"to no purpose"
],
[
"in vain",
"in vain"
],
[
"for nothing",
"for nothing"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) to no purpose, in vain; for no reason, for nothing"
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable",
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈni.(ɦ)ɪɫ]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈniː.kil]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "nihil"
}
{
"categories": [
"Latin 2-syllable words",
"Latin adverbs",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin indeclinable pronouns",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin pronouns",
"Latin terms prefixed with ne-",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Latin uncomparable adverbs",
"Pages with 6 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "adnihilō"
},
{
"word": "nihil album"
},
{
"word": "nihil debet"
},
{
"word": "nihil dicit"
},
{
"word": "nihildum"
},
{
"word": "nihilitās"
},
{
"word": "nihilō"
},
{
"word": "nihilōminus"
},
{
"word": "nonnihil"
}
],
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "nicles"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ne",
"3": "hīlum",
"t1": "not",
"t2": "the least bit"
},
"expansion": "ne- (“not”) + hīlum (“the least bit”)",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From nihilum, from ne- (“not”) + hīlum (“the least bit”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "la-adecl",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "nihil",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"nominative"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"neuter"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"neuter"
]
},
{
"form": "nihil",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"neuter"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"neuter"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"neuter",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "nīl",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"syncope"
]
},
{
"form": "nichil",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Latin"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nihil<indecl+>",
"indecl": "1",
"nomf": "1"
},
"expansion": "nihil (indeclinable)",
"name": "la-pronoun"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nihil<indecl+>",
"footnote": "The senses of the genitive, dative and ablative cases are usually rendered with forms of <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">nūllus</i> + <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">rēs</i>: genitive <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">nūllīus reī</i> <abbr title=\"feminine gender\">f</abbr>, dative <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">nūllī reī</i> <abbr title=\"feminine gender\">f</abbr>, ablative <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">nūllā rē</i> <abbr title=\"feminine gender\">f</abbr>. The genitive <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">nihilī</i> and the ablative <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">nihilō</i>, from <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">nihilum</i>, are generally not used as indefinite pronouns, but are instead reserved for idiomatic uses (<i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">nihilī</i> being used adjectivally with the sense \"worth nothing\", and <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">nihilō</i> being used in adverbial phrases like <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">dē nihilō</i> (“for no reason, without cause”) and <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">nihilō minus</i> or <i class=\"Latn mention\" lang=\"la\">nihilōminus</i> (“notwithstanding, none the less”)).",
"nomf": "1",
"title": "Indeclinable pronoun (used only in the nominative and accusative), singular only."
},
"name": "la-adecl"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "pron",
"related": [
{
"word": "adnihilātiō"
},
{
"word": "adnihilātor"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Latin terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
5
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
5,
12
],
[
16,
30
]
],
"english": "It's nothing/It doesn't matter.",
"text": "Nihil est.",
"translation": "It's nothing/It doesn't matter.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
5
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
0,
7
]
],
"english": "Nothing new under the sun (proverb).",
"raw_tags": [
"proverb"
],
"text": "Nihil sub sōle novum.",
"translation": "Nothing new under the sun (proverb).",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "You do nothing, you plan nothing, you think of nothing which I not only do not hear, but which I do not see and know every particular of.",
"ref": "63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.8",
"text": "Nihil agis, nihil moliris, nihil cogitas quod non ego non modo audiam sed etiam videam planeque sentiam.",
"translation": "You do nothing, you plan nothing, you think of nothing which I not only do not hear, but which I do not see and know every particular of.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"nothing"
],
"links": [
[
"nothing",
"nothing"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(indefinite) nothing"
],
"tags": [
"indeclinable",
"indefinite"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Latin terms with usage examples",
"Requests for translations of Latin quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "[Agorastocles] May gods so love me, nothing is more unfair than having a slothful friend, even more so for a man in love, who in doing anything must all expedite. So I lead them, having called them forth, the most slow-paced men of them all, slower than freight ships [corbitae] upon a quiet sea.",
"ref": "c. 194 BCE, Plautus, Poenulus 3.1.1–4",
"roman": "tardiores quam corbitae sunt in tranquillo mari.",
"text": "[Agorastocles] Ita me di ament, tardo amico nihil est quicquam inaequius,\npraesertim homini amanti, qui quidquid agit properat omnia.\nSicut ego hos duco advocatos, homines spissigradissimos,",
"translation": "[Agorastocles] May gods so love me, nothing is more unfair than having a slothful friend, even more so for a man in love, who in doing anything must all expedite. So I lead them, having called them forth, the most slow-paced men of them all, slower than freight ships [corbitae] upon a quiet sea.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 41.20",
"text": "In duabus tamen magnis honestisque rebus vere regius erat animus, in urbium donis et deorum cultu. Megalopolitanis in Arcadia murum se circumdaturum urbi est pollicitus maioremque partem pecuniae dedit; Tegeae theatrum magnificum e marmore facere instituit; cyzici in prytaneo—id est penetrale urbis, ubi publice, quibus is honos datus est, vescuntur—vasa aurea mensae unius posuit. Rhodiis ut nihil unum insigne, ita omnis generis, ut quaeque usus eorum postulaverunt, dona dedit.",
"translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"nothing"
],
"links": [
[
"nothing",
"nothing"
],
[
"quicquam",
"quicquam#Latin"
],
[
"quidquam",
"quidquam#Latin"
],
[
"unum",
"unum#Latin"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(indefinite) nothing",
"(with quicquam/quidquam, unum)"
],
"raw_tags": [
"with quicquam/quidquam"
],
"tags": [
"indeclinable",
"indefinite"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Latin terms with usage examples"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
3
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
3,
6
],
[
20,
28
]
],
"english": "Cannot you think of anything?",
"text": "Nīl·ne in mentem·st?",
"translation": "Cannot you think of anything?",
"type": "example"
},
{
"english": "Nothing at all! — you! — the nightly guard on the Palatine — nothing! — the patrols of the city — nothing! — the fear of the public — nothing! — the union of good people — nothing! — this most fortified place for holding the senate — nothing! — the faces and expressions of these [senators] — has moved [you]?\n(A somewhat literal interpretation with indications for spoken emphasis to convey the rhythmical effect of a series of rhetorical questions that exemplifies anaphora.)",
"ref": "63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.1",
"text": "Nihilne tē nocturnum praesidium Palātī, nihil urbis vigiliae, nihil timor populī, nihil concursus bonōrum omnium, nihil hic mūnītissimus habendī senātūs locus, nihil hōrum ōra voltūsque mōvērunt?",
"translation": "Nothing at all! — you! — the nightly guard on the Palatine — nothing! — the patrols of the city — nothing! — the fear of the public — nothing! — the union of good people — nothing! — this most fortified place for holding the senate — nothing! — the faces and expressions of these [senators] — has moved [you]?\n(A somewhat literal interpretation with indications for spoken emphasis to convey the rhythmical effect of a series of rhetorical questions that exemplifies anaphora.)",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"nihil or nil + the enclitic particle -ne, nihilne or nilne — more emphatic in a negative sense, a stronger negative than nōn: nothing at all, not at all, none at all, not any"
],
"links": [
[
"nothing",
"nothing"
],
[
"all",
"all"
],
[
"not",
"not"
],
[
"all",
"all"
],
[
"none",
"none"
],
[
"all",
"all"
],
[
"not",
"not"
],
[
"any",
"any"
]
],
"tags": [
"indeclinable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈni.(ɦ)ɪɫ]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈniː.kil]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "nihil"
}
{
"categories": [
"Latin 2-syllable words",
"Latin adverbs",
"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin indeclinable pronouns",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin pronouns",
"Latin terms prefixed with ne-",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Latin uncomparable adverbs",
"Pages with 6 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "ne",
"3": "hīlum",
"t1": "not",
"t2": "the least bit"
},
"expansion": "ne- (“not”) + hīlum (“the least bit”)",
"name": "prefix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From nihilum, from ne- (“not”) + hīlum (“the least bit”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "nīl",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"syncope"
]
},
{
"form": "nichil",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Latin"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "nihil",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "nihil (not comparable)",
"name": "la-adv"
}
],
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"pos": "adv",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "That they would neither be listening to orders nor would advance during fight, he wasn't at all moved: he knew perfectly well that so had not happened, under the command of whomsoever soldiers may have refused to comply, but good luck had failed their leader, after having badly handled some situation, or by some crime comitted they had been justly accused of covetousness.",
"ref": "c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 1.40",
"text": "Quod non fore dicto audientes neque signa laturi dicantur, nihil se ea re commoveri: scire enim, quibuscumque exercitus dicto audiens non fuerit, aut male re gesta fortunam defuisse aut aliquo facinore comperto avaritiam esse convictam.",
"translation": "That they would neither be listening to orders nor would advance during fight, he wasn't at all moved: he knew perfectly well that so had not happened, under the command of whomsoever soldiers may have refused to comply, but good luck had failed their leader, after having badly handled some situation, or by some crime comitted they had been justly accused of covetousness.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"at all, in nothing, in no respect"
],
"links": [
[
"at all",
"at all"
]
],
"qualifier": "not",
"raw_glosses": [
"(not) at all, in nothing, in no respect"
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Latin terms with quotations",
"Latin terms with rare senses"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "[Atticus] But why, why would you meditate over such things?\n[Marcus] Insooth, for no reason, if not that you won't take too close a look at them that be handed down in such a fashion.",
"ref": "52 BCE – 51 BCE, Cicero, De legibus Liber I.4",
"text": "[Atticus] Quorsum tandem aut cur ista quaeris?\n[Marcvs] Nihil sane, nisi ne nimis diligenter inquiras in ea quae isto modo memoriae sint prodita.",
"translation": "[Atticus] But why, why would you meditate over such things?\n[Marcus] Insooth, for no reason, if not that you won't take too close a look at them that be handed down in such a fashion.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to no purpose, in vain; for no reason, for nothing"
],
"links": [
[
"to no purpose",
"to no purpose"
],
[
"in vain",
"in vain"
],
[
"for nothing",
"for nothing"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare) to no purpose, in vain; for no reason, for nothing"
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable",
"rare"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ˈni.(ɦ)ɪɫ]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈniː.kil]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "nihil"
}
Download raw JSONL data for nihil meaning in Latin (12.1kB)
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: with quicquam/quidquam, unum",
"path": [
"nihil"
],
"section": "Latin",
"subsection": "pronoun",
"title": "nihil",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: with quicquam/quidquam, unum",
"path": [
"nihil"
],
"section": "Latin",
"subsection": "pronoun",
"title": "nihil",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Latin dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.