"nil" meaning in Latin

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "nihil"
      },
      "expansion": "Syncopic form of nihil",
      "name": "syncopic form"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Syncopic form of nihil, in turn from nihilum, from ne- (“not”) + hilum (“a hilum; a trifle, a bagatelle”), or unknown origin",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nīl",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nīl",
        "g": "n",
        "indecl": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "nīl n (indeclinable)",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 5 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 1 3 24 29 30 1 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 5 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "14 0 5 23 28 29 0 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "You have written well of me, Thomas. What reward therefore will you receive? Nothing other than you.",
          "text": "Bene scripsisti de me, Thoma. Quam ergo mercedem accipies? Nil nisi te.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "nothing"
      ],
      "id": "en-nil-la-noun-F4XPw7xq",
      "links": [
        [
          "poetic",
          "poetic"
        ],
        [
          "nothing",
          "nothing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly poetic) nothing"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "indeclinable",
        "poetic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/niːl/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[niːɫ̪]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/nil/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[nil]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nil"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 5 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Tok Pisin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Tok Pisin lemmas",
    "Tok Pisin nouns",
    "Tok Pisin terms derived from English"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "nihil"
      },
      "expansion": "Syncopic form of nihil",
      "name": "syncopic form"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Syncopic form of nihil, in turn from nihilum, from ne- (“not”) + hilum (“a hilum; a trifle, a bagatelle”), or unknown origin",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "nīl",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nīl",
        "g": "n",
        "indecl": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "nīl n (indeclinable)",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin 1-syllable words",
        "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Latin indeclinable nouns",
        "Latin lemmas",
        "Latin neuter indeclinable nouns",
        "Latin neuter nouns",
        "Latin nouns",
        "Latin poetic terms",
        "Latin syncopic forms",
        "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Latin terms with usage examples",
        "Pages with 5 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "You have written well of me, Thomas. What reward therefore will you receive? Nothing other than you.",
          "text": "Bene scripsisti de me, Thoma. Quam ergo mercedem accipies? Nil nisi te.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "nothing"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "poetic",
          "poetic"
        ],
        [
          "nothing",
          "nothing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(chiefly poetic) nothing"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "indeclinable",
        "poetic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/niːl/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[niːɫ̪]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/nil/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[nil]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "nil"
}