Meaning of nihil | Babel Free

Definitions

1. nothing
   indeclinable, indefinite
2. 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
   indeclinable

Examples

“Nihil est.”

It's nothing/It doesn't matter.

“Nihil sub sōle novum.”

Nothing new under the sun (proverb).

“Nihil agis, nihil moliris, nihil cogitas quod non ego non modo audiam sed etiam videam planeque sentiam.”

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.

“[Agorastocles] Ita me di ament, tardo amico nihil est quicquam inaequius, praesertim homini amanti, qui quidquid agit properat omnia. Sicut ego hos duco advocatos, homines spissigradissimos,”

[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.

“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.”

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“Nīl·ne in mentem·st?”

Cannot you think of anything?

“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?”

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]? (A somewhat literal interpretation with indications for spoken emphasis to convey the rhythmical effect of a series of rhetorical questions that exemplifies anaphora.)

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