The corpus record — Latin

caliginosus

caliginosus · adj

full of mist

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Where it lives

Carmina 1 · 0.75/10k
De Divinatione 1 · 0.36/10k
Tusculanae Disputationes 2 · 0.35/10k
Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1 · 0.13/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

cālīgĭnōsus — Lewis & Short

cālīgĭnōsus (post-class. cālīgōsus, a, um, adj.id.,

Mart. Cap. 8, § 803; cf. Kopp. ad id. 1, § 67; Ven. Fort. Carm. 5, 4, 25),

I full of mist, covered with mist, dark, obscure, gloomy (rare, but class. in prose and poetry): caelum et umidum et caliginosum, Cic. Tusc. 1, 19, 43: obscurior et quasi caliginosa stella (opp. illustris et pellucida), id. Div. 1, 57, 130: tractus, Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 171: tenebrae, Val. Max. 1, 7, ext. 1.—

II Trop., dark, uncertain, obscure: nox, i. e. an uncertain future, *Hor. C. 3, 29, 30: caliginosissima quaestio, Aug. Ep. 7.— Comp. and adv. not in use.

In the wild

caliginosa Cicero, De Divinatione 1.130
caliginoso Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.22.p2
caliginosum Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.43.p1
caliginosis Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 1.7e.1
caliginoso Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 1.60
caliginosa Horace, Carmina 3.29

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