The corpus record — Latin

nivosus

nivosus · adj

full of snow, snowy

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 1 · 0.64/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 5 1 · 0.62/10k
Punica 4 · 0.52/10k
Tristia 1 · 0.44/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epistulae 1 · 0.39/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

nĭvōsus — Lewis & Short

nĭvōsus, a, um, adj.nix,

I full of snow, snowy: hiems gelida ac nivosa, Liv. 5, 13, 1: tantum nivosae grandinis, id. 21, 59, 8: Strymon, Ov. Tr. 5, 3, 22: Scythia, id. H. 12, 27: loca praegelida ac nivosa, Col. 2, 9, 7: Pliadum nivosum sidus, Stat. S. 1, 3, 95.

In the wild

6 of 11 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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