niente

Meaning

Pron

1. nothing
2. anything

Det

no, (after a negative) any

Adv

1. at all
2. nothing, anything

Noun

nothing

Concepts

nothing

nil

nix

zero

void

none

zip

nought

naught

zilch

zippo

nada

nihility

for toffee

aught

sod-all

cipher

cypher

goose egg

no

🙅

not at all

nothingness

nullity

ought

Synonyms

nulla

niente di niente

assolutamente niente

nessuno

🙅

zero

0

un bel nulla

gnènte

che non esiste

nulla di nulla

nessuna

nientino

vuoto

minimamente

nullità

per niente

Translations

nada

rien

nichts

nada

res

niets

nihil

zéro

0

cero

0

res no

típota

τίποτα

que dalle

néant

Hyphenated as

nièn‧te

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈnjɛn.te/

Etymology

From an earlier neente, either from Latin ne gentem (“no person, no one”), nec entem, ne entem, or ne inde. Compare Old Catalan nient, Sicilian nenti, Piedmontese gnente, Occitan neient, French néant.
The regional pronunciation with initial self-gemination of /nj-/ is by speakers who try to correct the /ɲ-/ because of the orthography, but keep the syllable structure, and thus gemination, of the original /ɲ-/.