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
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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."