nigrantis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →nigrans, (gen.), nigrantis:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
black, dark colored; shadowy; murky;
acc. pl. (m./f.)gen. sg. (all) - Entry →nigro, nigrare, nigravi, nigratus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
be black; make black;
gen. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Agamemnon
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...superis unda, te pariter precor: reserate paulum terga nigrantis poli, leuis ut Mycenas turba prospiciat Phrygum. spectate, miseri..."Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...umbra tristis coniugem excipiam meum. Sed tu, nigrantis regna qui torques poli, para laborem (scelera quae quisque ausus..."Aeneid IX
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...lucus in arce fuit summa, quo sacra ferebant, nigranti picea trabibusque obscurus acernis. has ego Dardanio iuveni..."Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...locum Grai dixerunt nomine Aornum.] quattuor hic primum nigrantis terga iuvencos constituit frontique invergit vina sacerdos, et summas..."Aeneid V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...caedit binas de more bidentis totque sues, totidem nigrantis terga iuvencos, vinaque fundebat pateris animamque vocabat Anchisae magni..."Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...eras, cum candidus ante fuisses, corve loquax, subito nigrantis versus in alas. nam fuit haec quondam niveis argentea..."