The corpus record — Latin

nigredo

nigredo · f

blackness, black color

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Where it lives

Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 1 · 1.71/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k

What it meant

nī^grēdo — Lewis & Short

nī^grēdo, ĭnis, f.niger,

I blackness, black color (post-class.): capilli corvinā nigredine, App. M. 2, p. 118, 31: nigredo ollae, Vulg. Nah. 2, 10; Mart. Cap. 2, § 137: atrae noctis, id. 1, § 67.

In the wild

nigredine Apuleius, Metamorphoses 2.9
nigredine Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum Continuation.p6
nigredinis Boethius, Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 2

Where it came from

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