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nigellus1

somewhat black, dark

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Where it lives

Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k

What it meant

1. nĭgellus — Lewis & Short

nĭgellus, a, um,

I adj. dim. [1. niger], somewhat black, dark (ante-class.): oculi suppaetuli nigellis pupulis, Varr. ap. Non. 456, 8: amiculum, id. ib. 550, 6: vina, Pall. 3, 25, 12: Cadmi nigellae filiae, i. e. the letters of the alphabet, Aus. Ep. 4, 74.

2. Nĭgellus — Lewis & Short

Nĭgellus, i, m.,

I a Roman surname, Inscr. Grut. 226, 8.—In fem.: † Nĭgella, Inscr. Fabr. p. 4, n. 20.

In the wild

nigellus Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 10.156
nigellis Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 60.9

Where it came from

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