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Latin
Etymology
From nimis + -us.
Pronunciation
Adjective
nimius (feminine nimia, neuter nimium); first/second-declension adjective
- excessive, too great, too much
- Antonyms: parcus, modicus, paucus, perpaucus
- Ex nimiā suī opīniōne ― Having too good a conceit of himself.
Ex nimiā lībertāte tyrannī oriuntur.- Tyrants arise from excessive freedom.
Ex nimiā potentiā principum oritur interitus principum.- From the excessive power of princes arises the destruction of princes.
- beyond measure
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “nimius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nimius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "nimius", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- nimius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to almost lose one's reason from excess of joy: nimio gaudio paene desipere
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “nĭmis”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 7: N–Pas, page 143