nimium

Latin

Etymology

Adverbial accusative of nimius (“too great, excessive”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈni.mi.um/, [ˈnɪmiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈni.mi.um/, [ˈniːmium]

Adverb

nimium (not comparable)

1. too, too much, excessively

Synonyms

• (too much): nimiē, nimis

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^[1], 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