The corpus record — Latin

nidifico

nidifico · v. n

to build a nest

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Where it lives

Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
Naturalis Historia 10 · 0.25/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.23/10k

What it meant

nīdĭfĭco — Lewis & Short

nīdĭfĭco, āre, v. n.nidus-facio,

I to build a nest: nidificant aves, Col. 8, 15, 5; 8, 8, 3: sola piscium nidificat ex algā, Plin. 9, 26, 42, § 81: turdi luto nidificantes, id. 10, 53, 74, § 147.—Prov.: sic vos non vobis nidificatis aves, Verg. ap. Don. Vit. Verg. 17.

In the wild

nidificent Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 22.6
nidificant Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.39
nidificant Minucius Felix, Octavius 22.6
nidificantes Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.4.p4
nidifico Seneca, Medea 1
nidificant Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 10.6

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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