Etymology

Clipping of EnglishCategory:Translingual terms derived from English#NIL NilaCategory:Translingual clippings#NIL.

Symbol

nilCategory:Translingual lemmas#NILCategory:Translingual symbols#NILCategory:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#NILCategory:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#NILCategory:Pages with entries#NILCategory:Pages with 7 entries#NIL

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3Category:ISO 639-3 language code for Nila.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Nila terms

Etymology

Borrowed from LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Latin#NILCategory:English terms derived from Latin#NIL nīl, a contraction of nihil, nihilum (“nothing”).^[1] See nihilism, nihility.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɪl/Category:English 1-syllable words#NILCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#NIL

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

  Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#NIL
• Rhymes: -ɪlCategory:Rhymes:English/ɪl#NILCategory:Rhymes:English/ɪl/1 syllable#NIL

Noun

nil (usually uncountable, plural nils)Category:English lemmas#NILCategory:English nouns#NILCategory:English uncountable nouns#NILCategory:English countable nouns#NILCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#NILCategory:Pages with entries#NILCategory:Pages with 7 entries#NIL

1. Nothing; zero.
   • 1928 December 15, Frank J. Hirschboeck, “Treatment of Functional Heart Disease”, in The Journal of the American Medical Association‎, volume 91, number 24, →DOI, page 1855:

     Sedatives, contrary to popular lay and medical opinion, are invaluable in those who are not aided by the simpler means. Bromides, barbital and its innumerable offspring may be used with success, their administration being supplemented with a word of warning as to the evasion of any advice from the community grandmothers contrary to its use. The danger of forming a habit is to my mind nil, except in the few instances in which patients have felt that if a little is good more is better. The necessity for not advising the patient of the nature of the remedy, except that it is not a “dope,” is obvious. An alternation of remedies is advisable in long standing cases, and its practice never reveals any tendency to habit formation.

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   • 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.

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   • 2003, Matthew H[enry] Kramer, “Freedom and Force”, in The Quality of Freedom, Oxford, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 2008, →ISBN, chapter 3 (Instances of Freedom), page 254:

     [T]he overall freedom of a corpse is nil because a corpse is not someone to whom social and political liberty (or unfreedom) can ever correctly be ascribed.

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2. (sportsCategory:en:Sports#NIL) A score of zero

   The football match ended in a nil-nil draw.Category:English terms with usage examples#NIL

Determiner

nilCategory:English lemmas#NILCategory:English determiners#NILCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#NILCategory:Pages with entries#NILCategory:Pages with 7 entries#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.

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See also

• eau de nil
• null
• nil desperandum

References

Anagrams

• Lin, lin., Lin., -lin, lin, NLI

Alternative forms

• nl, nĺ

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nɨ̆ĺ], [nĺ], [˩˧nɨ̆l]Category:Golin terms with IPA pronunciation#NIL

Noun

nilCategory:Golin lemmas#NILCategory:Golin nouns#NILCategory:Golin entries with incorrect language header#NILCategory:Pages with entries#NILCategory:Pages with 7 entries#NIL

1. liquid; water

   Na nil ne dugudige. ― I swallowed water.Category:Golin terms with usage examples#NIL

References

• Gordon Bunn, Golin Grammar (1974)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nil/Category:Interlingua terms with IPA pronunciation#NIL

Pronoun

nil (indefinite)Category:Interlingua lemmas#NILCategory:Interlingua pronouns#NILCategory:Interlingua entries with incorrect language header#NILCategory:Pages with entries#NILCategory:Pages with 7 entries#NIL

1. nothing

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈniːɫ]Category:Latin 1-syllable words#NILCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#NIL
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnil]Category:Latin 1-syllable words#NILCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#NIL

Pronoun

nīl (indeclinable)Category:Latin lemmas#NILCategory:Latin pronouns#NILCategory:Latin indeclinable pronouns#NILCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#NILCategory:Pages with entries#NILCategory:Pages with 7 entries#NIL

1. syncopic form of nihil (“nothing”)Category:Latin syncopic forms#NIL

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

   ‘You have written well of me, Thomas. What reward would you like?’ ‘Nothing but you, Lord.’

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References

• “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

Etymology

Borrowed from HungarianCategory:Romanian terms borrowed from Hungarian#NILCategory:Romanian terms derived from Hungarian#NIL nyíl.

Noun

nil n (uncountable)Category:Romanian lemmas#NILCategory:Romanian nouns#NILCategory:Romanian uncountable nouns#NILCategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#NILCategory:Romanian neuter nouns#NILCategory:Pages with entries#NILCategory:Pages with 7 entries#NIL

1. (regionalCategory:Regional Romanian#NIL) sling

   Synonym: praștie

References

• nil in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Etymology

From EnglishCategory:Tok Pisin terms derived from English#NIL needle.

Noun

nilCategory:Tok Pisin lemmas#NILCategory:Tok Pisin nouns#NILCategory:Tok Pisin entries with incorrect language header#NILCategory:Pages with entries#NILCategory:Pages with 7 entries#NIL

1. needle
2. thorn
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:18:

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

     →New International Version translation

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