The corpus record — Latin

nix

nix · f

snow

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Where it lives

Praefatio 1 · 42.74/10k
Panegyricus de tertio consulatu Honorii Augusti 2 · 14.47/10k
Epodon 3 · 9.98/10k
de Bello Gothico 4 · 9.92/10k
Ordo Urbium Nobilium 1 · 9.56/10k
Technopaegnion 1 · 6.73/10k
Panegyricus dictus Probino et Olybrio consulibus 1 · 5.88/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 21 8 · 5.14/10k
Phoenissae 2 · 4.89/10k
Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli 1 · 4.65/10k
Phaedra 3 · 4.22/10k
Achilleis 3 · 4.16/10k

Densest 12 of 91 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

nix — Lewis & Short

nix, nĭvis, f.cf. Gr. ni/fa (acc.), snow; Lat. ningit, ninguit,

I snow.

I Lit.: Anaxagoras nivem nigram dixit esse, Cic. Ac. 2, 23, 72: pars terrarum obriguit nive pruināque, id. N. D. 1, 10, 24: miles nivibus pruinisque obrutus, Liv. 5, 2; Lact. 3, 24, 1: opposuit natura Alpemque nivemque, Juv. 10, 152: duratae solo nives, Hor. C. 3, 24, 39; 4, 12, 4: alta, Verg. G. 1, 310: nives solutae, Ov. Am. 3, 6, 93: horrifera, Val. Fl. 6, 306; Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 234.—

II Transf., white color, whiteness: capitis nives, i. e. white hair, Hor. C. 4, 13, 12; Prud. praef. Cath. 25 (dura translatio, Quint. 8, 6, 17): eboris, App. de Mundo, p. 69, 21.—

B Plur.: nives, snows, i. e. a cold climate, Prop. 1, 8, 8.

In the wild

nives Statius, Silvae 3.3.94
nives Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.232
nives Martial, Epigrammata 10.82.4
nives Florus, Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1.45.10.22
nivem Cicero, Lucullus 72
nives Claudian, In Eutropium 2.20.182

6 of 291 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. nix (scan p. 466; entry #7508).

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