nil desperandumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Latin nīl ‘nothing’, dēspērandum, gerund of dēspērāre ‘despair’, as used in Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro ‘no need to despair with Teucer as your leader and Teucer to protect you’, in Horace, Odes.

成句

nīl dēspērandum

1. nothing to be despaired of

   Nil desperandum Teucro duce et auspice Teucro (there is nothing to despair about with Teucer as our leader and Teucer as our protector). — Horace, Odes, I.vii.27 (translation Benham's Book of Quotations).

2. never despair.
3. I am not going to give up. Not for giving up, as in: this is not for giving up on.