The corpus record — Latin

nigresco

to become black, grow dark

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Where it lives

Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Peristephanon Liber 2 · 1.14/10k
Naturalis Historia 35 · 0.88/10k
Ars Amatoria 1 · 0.67/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Epigrammata 2 · 0.36/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Aeneid 2 · 0.32/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

nī^gresco — Lewis & Short

nī^gresco, grŭi, 3,

I v. inch. n. (usu. ī) [id.], to become black, grow dark (poet. and post-Aug. prose): latices nigrescere sacros, etc., Verg. A. 4, 454: tenebris nigrescere, id. ib. 11, 824: nigrescunt sanguine venae, Ov. A. A. 3, 503: baca incipiens nigrescere, Plin. 15, 1, 2, § 6: nigrescens cutis, id. 26, 1, 5, § 7: nigrescentes dentes, id. 31, 10, 46, § 117: bacae cum jam nigruerint, Col. 12, 48: dies nigrescet, Vulg. Ezech. 30, 18.

In the wild

nigrescunt Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.32
nigrescuntque Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 11.37.p36
nigrescunt Vergil, Aeneid 11.824
nigrescunt Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 11.85
nigrescit Ovid, Fasti 5.323
nigrescant Martial, Epigrammata 8.77.5

6 of 51 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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