no one; nobody (anyone or anybody)
“No hay nadie en el cuarto.” — There is no one in the room.
Antonyms: alguien
Related: a nadie le amarga un dulce, de casi no se muere nadie, don nadie, nadie es perfecto, no casarse con nadie, que nadie se llame a engaño, tierra de nadie
Inherited from Old Spanish nadi, nade (“no one”), inherited from Latin nātī (“born men/people”), perfect past participle of nāscor (“to be born”), ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-. The semantic change is due to commonly being used with negated verbs in spoken Ibero-Romance, supposing for example *nātī nōn fēcērunt (“born [people] did not do it”), cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese nado (“no one”). Compare the development of French personne from “person” to “no one”. Old Span