nil

See also: Nil, NIL, níl, Níl, Nîl, ni-l, -nil-, and Appendix:Variations of "nil"

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin nīl, a contraction of nihil, nihilum (“nothing”). See nihilism.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /nɪl/
• Rhymes: -ɪl

NounEdit

nil (usually uncountable, plural nils)

1. Nothing; zero.
   • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.19:

     As to Aristotle's influence on him, we are left free to conjecture whatever seems to us most plausible. For my part, I should suppose it nil.

TranslationsEdit

nothing

• Dutch: nul (nl)
• Esperanto: nenio (eo)
• Hebrew: כלום‎‎ (he) (kloom)
• Hungarian: null (hu)
• Japanese: ニル (niru)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: هیچ‎‎ (ku)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: null (no)

  Nynorsk: null

• Polish: zero (pl)
• Portuguese: nada (pt) m
• Russian: ничто́ (ru) n (ništó), ноль (ru) m (nolʹ) (zero)
• Scottish Gaelic: neoni m, f
• Spanish: nada (es), cero (es)
• Swedish: noll (sv)

DeterminerEdit

nil

1. No, not any.
   • 1982, Gavin Lyall, Conduct of Major Maxim, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd:

     But after two or three hours and nil results, you have to accept that the trail is cold and you can't justify that level of manpower.

Related termsEdit

• nihilism

See alsoEdit

• null
• nil desperandum

AnagramsEdit

• -lin, Lin, lin

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GolinEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• nl
• nĺ

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [nɨ̆ĺ], [nĺ], [˩˧nɨ̆l]

NounEdit

nil

1. liquid; water

   Na nil ne dugudige.

   I swallowed water.

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

• Kulupe nil
• nil benke
• nil benke binan
• nil guli
• nil kabe

• nil kupa si
• Nilmanil
• nil pai
• nilwa

ReferencesEdit

• Gordon Bunn, Golin Grammar (1974)

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InterlinguaEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /nil/

PronounEdit

nil (indefinite)

1. nothing

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

Clipping of nihil, in turn from nihilum, from ne- (“not”) + hilum (“a hilum; a trifle, a bagatelle”), or unknown origin

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /niːl/, [niːɫ]

NounEdit

nīl n (indeclinable)

1. (chiefly poetic) nothing

   Bene scripsisti de me, Thoma. Quam ergo mercedem accipies? Nil nisi te.

   You have written well of me, Thomas. What reward therefore will you receive? Nothing unless it is you.

ReferencesEdit

• nil in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nil in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Tok PisinEdit

EtymologyEdit

English needle.

NounEdit

nil

1. needle
2. thorn
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 3:18 (translation here):

     Ol rop i gat nil na ol gras nogut bai i kamap na karamapim gaden bilong yu.

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