köken: Calque of Latin nihil sub sōle novum / nihil novī sub sōle, itself a rough calque of Hebrew אֵין כָּל חָדָשׁ תַּחַת הַשָּׁמֶשׁ (“there is nothing new under the sun”).
“there is nothing new under the sun”; there is nothing truly novel in existence.
köken: Vulgate translation at Ecclesiastes 1:10 (1:9 in most other versions), Semantic loan from Biblical Hebrew אֵין כָּל חָדָשׁ תַּחַת הַשָּׁמֶשׁ (“there is nothing new under the sun”): nihil (“nothing”) + sub (“under, beneath”) + sōle (ablative singular form of sōl: “[the] sun”) + novum (neuter nominative singular form of novus: “new”) = “nothing new under the sun”.