nĭvit — Lewis & Short
nĭvit, ĕre,
I v. impers. [nix], it snows; poet. transf. of a great quantity of missile weapons: sagittis, plumbo et saxis grandinat, nivit, Pac. ap. Non. 507, 27 (Trag. Rel. v. 4 Rib.).
The corpus record — Latin
nivit
nivit
it snows
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Where it lives
- Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 9.12/10k
- Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
- Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
- Rudens 4 · 3.37/10k
- Thyestes 2 · 3.18/10k
- Carmina 4 · 3.01/10k
- Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 4 · 2.57/10k
- Satyrarum libri 3 · 2.11/10k
- Ex Ponto 4 · 1.93/10k
- Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
- Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
- Carmina 2 · 1.55/10k
Densest 12 of 47 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
In the wild
- nive Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.26
- nive Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 19.5.3
- nive Martial, Epigrammata 14.117.2
- nive Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 2.49
- nive Ovid, Ex Ponto 4.5.4
- nive Seneca, Thyestes 1
6 of 99 attestations shown.
Where it came from
- Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. niuit (scan p. 466; entry #7510). Root candidates: *niut-.
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