English Explanatory Dictionary

ex nihilo nihil fit

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

ex nihilo nihil fit ex nihilo nihil

Etymology

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

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