candentibus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →candeo, candere, candui, -:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
be of brilliant whiteness, shine, gleam (white); become/be hot; glow, sparkle;
abl. pl. pres. act. part.dat. pl. pres. act. part. - Entry →candens, candentis (gen.), candentior -or -us, candentissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
shining/bright/clear (light); (approaching) white; boiling/red-hot, glowing;
abl. pl. (all)dat. pl. (all)
Examples

Liber Quartus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...terras et eoi cornua montis emicuit traxitque diem candentibus undis et Minyas viso liquerunt flamina Phoebo. Proxima Bebrycii..."- P
Metamorphoses XI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...ingeniosus ad omne, candida de nigris et de candentibus atra qui facere adsuerat, patriae non degener artis; nascitur..." - Q
Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...pransi tria repimus atque subimus inpositum saxis late candentibus Anxur. huc venturus erat Maecenas optimus atque Cocceius, missi..."
