The corpus record — Latin

nubigena

nubigena · comm

cloud-born, born of clouds

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Where it lives

In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
Hamartigenia 1 · 1.56/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k
Aeneid 2 · 0.32/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k

What it meant

nūbĭgĕna — Lewis & Short

nūbĭgĕna, ae, comm.nubes-gigno,

I cloud-born, born of clouds or of a cloud (poet.).

I In gen.: amnes, Stat. Th. 1, 365: nimbi, Prud. Hamart. 486: clipei, the Ancilia (so called because they fell from the sky), Stat. S. 5, 2, 131.—

II In partic.

A The Centaurs, whom Ixion begot of a cloud, Stat. Th. 5, 263; Ov. M. 12, 211; 541; cf. Hyg. Fab. 62.—

B Phrixus, as the son of Nephele: Phrixus nubigena, Col. poët. 10, 115.

In the wild

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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