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denigro

color very black

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Where it lives

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Naturalis Historia 10 · 0.25/10k
De Architectura 1 · 0.17/10k

What it meant

dē-nī^gro — Lewis & Short

dē-nī^gro, āre,

I v. a., to blacken utterly, dye or color very black (very rare; in the Ciceron. per. not at all).

I Lit.: terram (amurca), Varr. R. R. 1, 55 fin.: lanam, Plin. 33, 6, 35, § 109: capillum, id. 23, 5, 53, § 99: faciem super carbones, Vulg. Thren. 4, 8.— *

II Trop.: honorem famamque alicujus, to blacken, i. e. to asperse, defame, Firm. 5, 10 fin.

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