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Latin
Etymology
Adverbial accusative of nimius (“too great, excessive”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
nimium (not comparable)
- too, too much
- excessively, exceedingly, overly
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 3.288–289:
- rēx pavet et volgī pectora terror habet,
cui dea ‘nē nimium terrēre!’- Terror grips the people’s hearts, and the king is alarmed,
to whom the goddess , ‘‘Don't be overly dismayed.’’
(The goddess might sound more formal when advising the king; or, she could say: ‘‘Don't be too afraid.’’)
Synonyms
References
- “nimium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nimium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nimium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to go deeply into a matter, discuss it fully: multum, nimium esse (in aliqua re) (De Or. 2. 4. 17)
- to be pedantic: nimium diligentem esse