The corpus record — Latin

ob-nĭger

adj., blackish: radices, Plin. 20, 23, 94, § 253 Sillig. (al. obliquis nigris)

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What it meant

ob-nĭger — Lewis & Short

ob-nĭger, gra, grum,

I adj., blackish: radices, Plin. 20, 23, 94, § 253 Sillig. (al. obliquis nigris).

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.