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nimia

nimia is a Latin form of nimius, meaning “excessive, too much”. It is the ablative singular feminine adjective or nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 236 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.29.4: Sibi numquam placuisse Avaricum defendi, cuius rei testes ipsos haberet; sed factum imprudentia Biturigum et nimia obsequentia reliquorum uti hoc incommodum acciperetur;

Phaedrus, Fabulae 4.17.7: Nimiaque nautas hilaritate extollere.

All forms of nimius (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.