(adverb) : nĭmis, ni-, ne-, and root ma-, to measure; cf.: metior, mensa, metare, etc.; hence
* Too much, overmuch, excessively, beyond measure.
* Lit.: Chremes nimis graviter cruciat adulescentulum nimisque inhumane,too severely ... too inhumanly,Ter. Heaut. 5, 5, 1: nec nimis valde nec nimis saepe,Cic. Leg. 3, 1, 1: heu nimis longo satiate ludo,Hor. C. 1, 2, 37: nimis castus Bellerophon,id. ib. 3, 7, 14: felix heu nimis,Stat. S. 2, 7, 24: nimis dixi,Plin. Pan. 45.
* With gen.: nimis insidiarum,Cic. Or. 51, 170: haec loca lucis habent nimis,Ov. F. 6, 115.
* Transf., beyond measure, exceedingly (ante-class.): nimis velim lapidem, etc.,Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 119: nimis id genus ego odi male,id. Rud. 4, 2, 15; id. Am. 1, 1, 63; Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 16.—Also strengthened by quam or tandem, very much, in the highest degree: nimis quam formido, ne, etc.,Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 79; id. Truc. 2, 5, 15: nimis tandem contemnor,id. Ps. 4, 1, 11; id. Pers. 2, 1, 2.—Prov.: ne quid nimis,Ter. And. 1, 1, 34.