nitro
Dictionary entries
- Entry →nitrum, nitri:
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
name of various alkalis (esp. soda and potash but probably not nitre);
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...nimium rigorem. Interest utrum loca sulphure an nitro an bitumine plena transierint; hac ratione corruptae cum uitae periculo..."Liber I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...culmos. semina uidi equidem multos medicare serentis et nitro prius et nigra perfundere amurca, grandior ut fetus siliquis..."Liber V
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...mari inlabitur, circa cuius os lectae harenae admixto nitro in vitrum excoquuntur. Modicum id litus et egerentibus inexhaustum..."