The corpus record — Latin

nimbosus

nimbosus · adj

full of storms, stormy, rainy

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Where it lives

Cupido cruciatur 1 · 13.57/10k
de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Silvae 3 · 1.2/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Punica 4 · 0.52/10k
Ex Ponto 1 · 0.48/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

nimbōsus — Lewis & Short

nimbōsus, a, um, adj.nimbus,

I full of storms, stormy, rainy (cf.: nubilus, nebulosus): fluctu nimbosus Orion, Verg. A. 1, 535: ventus, Ov. P. 2, 3, 27: aër, Luc. 5, 631: bruma, Stat. S. 1, 3, 89: montes, Plin. 18, 11, 29, § 109: ver, Juv. 4, 87: urbs, i. e. Rome, Plin. 26, 3, 8, § 16.

In the wild

nimboso Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.357
nimbosa Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 26.3.p2
nimbosi Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.551
nimbosum Statius, Thebais 12.305
nimbosoque Silius Italicus, Punica 1.207
nimboso Juvenal, Saturae 1.4.87

6 of 27 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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