nihilo

Latin

Etymology 1

Noun

nihilō

1. dative/ablative singular of nihilum

Etymology 2

Adverb

nihilō (not comparable)

1. not, by no means
2. (with "minus") none the less
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.5:

     Post eius mortem nihilo minus Helvetii id quod constituerant facere conantur, ut e finibus suis exeant

     After his death the Helvetii none the less undertook to use that which they had already established so that they could leave their borders.

References

• “nihilo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nihilo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Etymology 3

Noun

nihilō m (genitive nihilōnis); third declension

1. a good-for-nothing fellow

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	nihilō	nihilōnēs
genitive	nihilōnis	nihilōnum
dative	nihilōnī	nihilōnibus
accusative	nihilōnem	nihilōnēs
ablative	nihilōne	nihilōnibus
vocative	nihilō	nihilōnēs

References

• “nihilo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nihilo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.