nigrescerer
Dictionary entries
- Entry →nigresco, nigrescere, nigrui, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
become black, grow dark;
sg. imperf. pass. subj. 1st
Examples
Aeneid IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...turicremis cum dona imponeret aris, (horrendum dictu) latices nigrescere sacros fusaque in obscenum se vertere vina cruorem..."Metamorphoses III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...sive hoc insania fecit sive timor, primusque Medon nigrescere toto corpore et expresso spinae curvamine flecti incipit. huic..."Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...auxiliumque tulit. tendebam bracchia caelo: bracchia coeperunt levibus nigrescere pennis; reicere ex umeris vestem molibar, at illa pluma..."