candidior
Dictionary entries
- Entry →candidus, candida -um, candidior -or -us, candidissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
bright, clear, transparent; clean/spotless; lucid; candid; kind; innocent, pure;; radiant, unclouded; (dressed in) white; of light color; fair skinned, pale;
nom. sg. (m./f.)voc. sg. (m./f.)
Examples
Liber X
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...caras tellure Rabirius umbras; Nulli sorte iacent candidiore senes: Bis sex lustra tori nox mitis et ultima clusit..."Liber VII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...Sordidior caeno cum sit toga, calceus autem candidior prima sit tibi, Cinna, niue: deiecto quid, inepte, pedes perfundis..."Liber IV
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...nequitias tellus scit dare nulla magis. Sit niue candidior: namque in mareotide fusca pulchrior est quanto rarior iste..."Liber I
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...ossa colat. Quaedam me cupit,— inuide, Procille!— loto candidior puella cycno, argento, niue, lilio, ligustro: sed quandam uolo..."XIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...omni vere misi, non, si quis ceris novis candidior incidit favus, tuis reservatus est mensis, cum parvis mediocritate..."
Liber Tertius
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...pocula magno prima duci murrasque graves crystallaque portat candidiore manu: crescit nova gratia Baccho. Care puer superis..."Ecloga VII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...esto. Corydon Nerine Galatea, thymo mihi dulcior Hyblae, candidior cycnis, hedera formosior alba, cum primum pasti repetent praesepia..."Ecloga I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...videndi? Tityrus Libertas, quae sera tamen respexit inertem, candidior postquam tondenti barba cadebat, respexit tamen et longo post..."