nimio
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See also: nimiö
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin nimius (“excessive”), derived from nimis (“too much, excessively”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]nimio (feminine nimia, masculine plural nimi, feminine plural nimie) (literary, rare)
Further reading
[edit]- nimio in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
[edit]Adjective
[edit]nimiō
References
[edit]- “nimio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nimio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to almost lose one's reason from excess of joy: nimio gaudio paene desipere
- (ambiguous) to almost lose one's reason from excess of joy: nimio gaudio paene desipere
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin nimius (“excessive”), with an inversion of meaning in its most common sense.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]nimio (feminine nimia, masculine plural nimios, feminine plural nimias)
- insignificant, trivial, petty, trifling
- Synonyms: insignificante, trivial
- 1917, Horacio Quiroga, Una estación de amor, Verano:
- Pero un nimio incidente, punzando su vanidad, lo arrastró de nuevo.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- meticulous, thorough
- Synonym: meticuloso
- excessive, exaggerated
Further reading
[edit]- “nimio”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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- Italian lemmas
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