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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

ex nihilo nihil fit en · X

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ex nihilō nihil fit (literally “out of nothing is made nothing”), from De rerum natura by Lucretius.

Meanings

  1. Nothing comes from nothing; out of nothing, nothing is produced.

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