nubium
Dictionary entries
- Entry →nubis, nubis:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Age:
- Early
cloud/mist/haze/dust/smoke; sky/air; billowy formation (hair); swarm/multitude;; frown, gloomy expression; gloom/anxiety; mourning veil; cloud/threat (of war);
gen. pl. - Entry →nubes, nubis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
cloud/mist/haze/dust/smoke; sky/air; billowy formation (hair); swarm/multitude;; frown, gloomy expression; gloom/anxiety; mourning veil; cloud/threat (of war);
gen. pl.
Examples
- L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...praestat gaudium perpetuum, securum; etiam si quid obstat, nubium modo intervenit, quae infra feruntur nec umquam diem vincunt..." - L
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...frangi solent rupit et ignis ex hoc collisu nubium cursuque elisi aeris emicuit, hic ipse in obuia incurrit..." - L
Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...angustum contulerunt, et inde est spissarum nubium grauitas. [3,2] Adice nunc quod circa flumina et lacus frequens..." - L
Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...quominus omnes nostrorum ineptias proferam. Quosdam peritos obseruandarum nubium esse affirmant et praedicere cum grando uentura..." - L
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...unde uentis origo est, cum coaceruatus est, coitu nubium uehementer a latere eliditur ; deinde, ut latius, nubes proximas..." - L
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...superior est sol et ideo superiori tantum parti nubium affunditur, numquam terra tenus descendet arcus: atqui usque..." - M
XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...pulverem tersit, nulla super arentes campos saltem umbra nubium pependit. calidi spiravere venti, maturitatem praecepit aestus. etiam sicubi..." - P
Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...navium remis strepere aut velis inpelli: mox atro nubium globo effusa grando, simul variis undique procellis incerti fluctus..."