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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• nothing:
    1. I. Non-existence, no-being, nonentity: nĭhĭlum: to be created out of n., de n. creari, gigni, fieri, Lucr. 1, 157, sqq.: to reduce things to n., ad n. interimere res., ib. 217: to spring from n. or return to n., ex n. oriri aut in nihilum occidere, Cic. Div. 2, 16, fin. (the use of nil in this sense., Lucr. 1, 267, ad nil revocari, is exceptional., and not to be imitated): to value at n. (attach no value at all to), nihili facere, pendere, Pl.: Ter.: v. to value.
    2. II. Not anything:
      1. 1. nĭhil, contr. nīl, indecl. n.; with nulla res to supply its place where an inflected form is required, or after a preposition (concerning nihili, nihilo, v. supr.): that n. can be created out of n., nil posse creari de nihilo, Lucr. 1, 157: n. is better than agriculture, nihil (the form always used by Cic. in prose) est agricultura melius, Cic. Off. 1., 42., fin.: to do n., n. agere, Cic. Sen. 6: freq. used with ref. to persons: n. so pitiable as the wretched man who was once happy, n. tam miserabile quam ex beato miser, Cic. Part. Or. 17, init. Strengthened by quicquam: n. whatever that is excellent, n. quicquam egregium, id. de Or. 1, 30, 134. Nothing but, n. else than, n. nisi, Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 40; n. aliud nisi, Cic. Am. 27, init.; n. praeter, id. Fam. 4, 7. Note also the foll. phr.: it is n. to us, n. ad nos, id. in Pis. 28, 68: n. in comparison with ..., n. ad ..., id. de Or. 2, 6, 25: I have n. to do with you, tecum n. rei nobis est, Ter. Ph. 2, 3, 74. (N.B.--For the use of nulla res, as the inflected form, cf. Nep. Reg. 2, nullius rei [not nihili] cupidus, nisi imperii, covetous of n. but empire: Cic. Br. 59, fin., nulla re una oratorem magis commendari ..., by nothing whatever, no single thing. This form may also be used for emphasis instead of nihil: cf. Lucr. 1, 151, nullam rem e nihilo gigni divinitus unquam.)
      2. 2. (in imperative sentences, or after a verb of asking, commanding, striving, etc.), nē quid, ut ne quid: n. in excess! ne quid nimis! Ter. Andr. 1, 1, 34: (we must arouse our diligence) so that we may do n. heedlessly, ut ne quid inconsiderate agamus, Cic. Off. 1, 29, 103: strengthened by prorsus: ut prorsus ne quid ignorem, may absolutely be ignorant of nothing. (N.B.--In gen. and dat., rei must be added: I will strive to be forgetful of n., *enitar ne cujus rei immemor esse videar. Ne cujus = of no person.) Phr.: good for n., nēquam (v. good-for-nothing): n. but (= sheer, unqualified), mĕrus: he speaks of n. but war, merum bellum loquitur, Cic. Att. 9, 13, fin.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• NOTHING
nihil (☞ the usual form in the best prose writers: Cic. seems to have altogether avoided the abbreviation nil, which occurs in his works only in passages cited from poets; Vid: Müller ad Cic., Or. pro Sest., 28, p. 73; Goerenz ad Cic., Fin., 2, p. 153); nihilum: ☞ nihil substantive or adjective; nihilum only substantive; but if the substantive is to be declined, then always nulla res (with the exception of nihili and nihilo); nulla res, either abstractly or concretely, of things, or of events, nihil always in a subjective sense, and always abstractly (Vid: Herzog, ad Caes., B.C., 2, 6); e.g., nihil agere, nihil loqui; quod mihi nulla res eripiet; nulla res Caesari ad pristinam fortunam defuit; prorsus nihil. Since nihil is PROP. a substantive, it takes an adjective or a genitive after it; e.g., nothing of the sort, nihil tale: he has done nothing new, nihil novi fecit: nothing can come of nothing, de nihilo nihil fit; de nihilo nihil creari potest: for nothing, sine causa (e.g., laborare): from nothing, ex or de nihilo: a thing comes to nothing, res non succedit, non habet optatum or speratum eventum (does not take place): res non exitum habet, non ad effectum adducitur (does not succeed): to come to nothing = perish, ad nihilum venire, redigi, or recidere; in nihilum interire or occidere: to think nothing of, pro nihilo putare or ducere (not to value it): negligere, omittere (to disregard it): nothing less, nihil minus; nihil vero minus: there is nothing in a thing, in aliqua re nihil est: there is nothing in it = it is not so, haec res non ita se habet: to be good for nothing, nihil esse: nihil posse; non multum valere (to be of no power or influence): nihili esse, inutilem esse (to be useless or unprofitable): nothing but, merus (☞ in good prose only of things): e.g., to speak of nothing but war, merum bellum loqui: to narrate nothing but prodigies, mera monstra narrare: nothing but trifles, merae nugae; or by summus, magnus, singularis; e.g., he showed nothing but friendliness in receiving me, summa comitate me excipiebat. Nothing but, nihil nisi (but not nihil quam; Vid: Zumpt § 735); nihil aliud nisi (nothing else than = nihil praeter, and is exclusive; whereas nihil aliud quam is comparative = is this, and nothing different from or more than this; Vid: Krüger, 585, 2). OBS. After nihil aliud nisi a participle or adjective agrees with the following substantive (ut nihil aliud nisi pax videatur quaesita, Cic.). ☞ They do nothing but, etc. In expressions of this kind the Latin is elliptical, and omits the facere or agere (e.g., nihil aliud quam bellum comparavit, Nep.).