FromLatinnihil,nil.
- IPA(key): /ˈnɪ.hɪl/,/ˈniː(h)ɪl/,/ˈnaɪ(h)ɪl/,/-əl/
- Rhymes:-aɪəl
nihil (countable anduncountable,pluralnihils)
- (countable, law) Anihil dicit.
- (uncountable, chiefly philosophy)nothingness,nonbeing
- 1996, David Tibet, “The Starres Are Marching Sadly Home (Theinmostlightthirdandfinal)” (lyrics):
- I shall no longer believe all the visions of my youth:
They have dissolved intonihil.
2008, Arvydas Šliogeris,Names of Nihil, page13:All tales about the beginning are apt to eliminate the nothing and make being overall.[…] WithoutNihil the whirlpool of the beginning settles down and becomes a stagnant puddle of pure being.Nihil disappears.
2009, Walter Brueggemann,An Unsettling God: The Heart of the Hebrew Bible, page143:That is, in the sovereign act of creation, whereby YHWH orders chaos, YHWH provisionally defeated the power of theNihil but did not destroy or eliminate the threat of chaos.
Unadapted borrowing fromLatinnihil.
nihil
- nothing
- Synonyms:niks,niets,noppes,nada
Borrowed fromDutchnihil, fromLatinnihil.
nihil
- null
- empty
nihil
- (indefinite) The absence of anything;nothing.
Fromnihilum, fromne-(“not”) +hīlum(“the least bit”).
nihil (indeclinable)
- (indefinite)nothing
- Nīl·ne in mentem·st? ―Cannot you think ofanything?
- Nihil est. ―It'snothing/Itdoesn't matter.
- Nihil sub sōle novum. ―Nothing new under the sun(proverb).
- This pronoun can be used with a neuter nominative/accusative singular adjective (e.g.nihil bonum), or with the genitive singular of a second-declension neuter adjective (e.g.nihil bonī), but it is not used with the genitive singular of third-declension adjectives.
- In Latin, negation is expressed by a single negative word per clause (i.e., Latin does not have negative concord). If another negative word is present, such asnec(“nor, and not”) ornumquam(“never”), the negative polarity pronounquidquam /quicquam(“anything”) is used instead ofnihil(“nothing”) unless the pronoun represents a second, logically distinct negation.
Indeclinable pronoun (used only in the nominative and accusative), singular only.
The senses of the remaining cases are usually rendered with forms ofnūllus +rēs, e.g. genitivenūllīusreī. The genitivenihilī and the ablativenihilō, fromnihilum, have idiomatic senses.
- “nihil”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nihil”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "nihil", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- nihil inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[1], London:Macmillan and Co.
- I cannot wait till..:nihil mihi longius est orvidetur quam dum orquam ut
- nothing is more tiresome to me than..:nihil mihi longius est quam (c. Inf.)
- a wise man is in no way affected by this:hoc nihil ad sapientem pertinet
- to live a life free from all misfortune:nihil calamitatis (in vita) videre
- to afford no consolation:nihil habere consolationis
- to considerably (in no way) further the common good:multum (nihil) ad communem utilitatem afferre
- I will refuse you nothing:nihil tibi a me postulanti recusabo
- not to trouble oneself about a thing:nihil omnino curare
- there is nothing I am more interested in than..:nihil antiquius orprius habeo quam ut (nihil mihi antiquius orpotius est, quam ut)
- to live as scrupulously moral a life as ever:nihil ex pristina virtute remittere
- to do no business with a man:nihil cum aliquo contrahere
- not to mention..:ut non (nihil) dicam de...
- but this is not to the point:sed hoc nihil (sane) ad rem
- there is something in what you say; you are more or less right:aliquid (τι) dicis (opp.nihil dicis)
Malay numbers(edit) | | 0 | 1 → [a],[b],[c],[d],[e] | 10 → [a],[b],[c],[d] |
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| Cardinal:(informal)kosong,(formal)sifar,nol,nihil |
Learned borrowing fromLatinnihil.
nihil (Jawi spellingنيهيل)
- zero
- Synonyms:kosong,sifar,nol
