NIXとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From German nix, colloquial form of nichts (“nothing”). Compare also Dutch niks (“nothing”), informal for niets (“nothing”). More at naught.

発音

• (英国発音, General American) IPA: /nɪks/
• 韻: -ɪks
• Homophone: nicks

名詞

nix (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) Nothing. [from 1789]

   Synonyms: nada, zip

   • 1912, Edna Ferber, “Maymeys from Cuba”, in Buttered Side Down:

     "That's a clean lift from Kipling—or is it Conan Doyle? Anyway, I've read something just like it before. Say, kid, guess what these magazine guys get for a full page ad.? Nix. That's just like a woman. Three thousand straight. Fact."

   • 1920, Harold MacGrath, chapter 26, in The Drums of Jeopardy:

     "I can take you down, Miss Conover, but I cannot take Mr. Hawksley. When the boss gives me an order I obey it—if I possibly can. On the day the boss tells me you can go strolling, I'll give you the key to the city. Until then, nix! No use arguing, Mr. Hawksley."

派生語

動詞

nix (third-person singular simple present nixes, present participle nixing, simple past and past participle nixed)

1. To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel. [from 1903]

   Synonyms: cancel, reject

   Nix the last order – the customer walked out.

   • 1935 July 17, “Sticks Nix Hick Pix”, in Variety, volume 119, number 5, page 1:

     Sticks Nix Hick Pix [headline]

   • 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

     He said his roommate had reacted favorably & said he "wanted to share the bed" with him! So I figured that nixed me out of the picture at least for now.

   • 1999, Owen W. Linzmayer, Apple Confidential, San Francisco: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 242:

     The move came less than six months after Jobs had nixed the spin-off of Newton Inc. as an independent company and brought it back inside Apple (see “The Fallen Apple,” page 143).

   • 2012 June 17, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎, archived from the original on 20 June 2012:

     At work Mr. Burns spies Homer munching complacently on a donut and hisses that each donut Homer shoves into his fat face brings him one donut closer to the poisoned donut Mr. Burns has ordered thrown into the mix as a form of culinary Russian Roulette, only to learn from Smithers that the plant’s lawyers ultimately nixed the poisoned donut plan because “they consider it murder.”

2. To destroy or eradicate.

間投詞

nix

1. No! Not at all!
   • 1916 January, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 472, column 2:

     "Ugh! An inventor, eh?" "Nix! He's not an inventor himself, but he antes-up for 'em."

2. (obsolete) A warning cry when a policeman or schoolmaster etc. was seen approaching.

関連する語

• 86 / eighty-six
• ixnay
• mox nix

参照

語源 2

From German Nix, from Middle High German nickes, niches, from Old High German nichus, nihhus, from Proto-Germanic *nikwus (“water-spirit; nix”), from Proto-Indo-European *neygʷ- (“to wash”). Cognate with 古期英語 nicor (“a water-monster; hippopotamus”).

名詞

nix (plural nixes)

1. A treacherous water-spirit

   Hyponym: nixie

   • 1876, John Mitchell Kemble, The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth Till the Period of the Norman Conquest, volume I, London: Bernard Quaritch, page 391:

     The beautiful Nix or Nixie who allures the young fisher or hunter to seek her embraces in the wave which brings his death, the Neck who seizes upon and drowns the maidens who sport upon his banks, the river-spirit who still yearly in some parts of Germany demands tribute of human life, are all forms of the ancient Nicor[.]

アナグラム

• Xin

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈnɪks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈniks]

名詞

nix f (genitive nivis); third declension

1. snow
   • 16 BCE, Ovid, The Loves 3.6.92–93:

     Fontis habēs īnstar pluviamque nivēsque solūtās,
          quās tibi dīvitiās pigra ministrat hiemps.

     For a source you have the rain and the melting snows,
          riches which lazy winter administers to you.

2. (figurative) white hair
   • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horace, Odes 5.13.9–12:

     Importūnus enim trānsvolat āridās
     quercūs et refugit tē, quia lūridī
        dentēs tē, quia rūgae
          turpant et capitis nivēs.

     For he flies, importune, past the dry
     oaks and avoids you, because the yellowed
        teeth, because the wrinkes
          and the white hair make you ugly.

3. (alchemy) synonym of cadmia, zinc oxide

語形変化

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

関連する語

派生した語

参照

• Buchi, Éva; Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008–), “*/ˈnɪβ-e/”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “nĭx”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 438
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “nĭx”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 7: N–Pas, page 156

Further reading

• “nix”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nix”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers