ningit

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ningit or ninguit, ēbat, nxit, 3, v. n. [Gr. νίφει; cf. nix, and v. Serv. Verg. A. 4, 250], it snows.

I Lit.: ningit, Col. 11, 2, 31; Verg. G. 3, 367: cum ninxerit caelestium molem mihi, Att. ap. Prisc. p. 882 P. (Trag. Rel. v. 101 Rib.).—

β In the pass. form: totum istud spatium, quā pluitur et ninguitur, Ap. Flor. 1, p. 340, 39.—*

II Transf., to shower down, scatter : ningunt rosarum Floribus, Lucr. 2, 627.

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