nil desperandum
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[edit] Etymology
Latin nīl ‘nothing’, dēspērandum, gerund of dēspērāre ‘despair’, as used in Nil desperandum Teucro duce at auspice Teucro ‘no need to despair with Teucer as your leader and Teucer to protect you’, in Horace, Odes.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /nɪl dɛspəˈrændəm/
[edit] Interjection
nil desperandum
- Do not despair.
[edit] Latin
[edit] Idiom
nil desperandum
- nothing to be despaired of
- Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro (there is nothing to despair about with Teucer as our leader and Teucer as our protector). — Horace, Odes, I.vii.27 (translation Benham's Book of Quotations).
- never despair.
- I am not going to give up. Not for giving up, as in: this is not for giving up on.
