nigresco

nī̆gresco, grŭi, 3, v. inch. n. (usu. ī) [1. niger],

• to become black, grow dark (poet. and post-Aug. prose): latices nigrescere sacros, etc., Verg. A. 4, 454: tenebris nigrescere, id. ib. 11, 824: nigrescunt sanguine venae, Ov. A. A. 3, 503: baca incipiens nigrescere, Plin. 15, 1, 2, § 6: nigrescens cutis, id. 26, 1, 5, § 7: nigrescentes dentes, id. 31, 10, 46, § 117: bacae cum jam nigruerint, Col. 12, 48: dies nigrescet, Vulg. Ezech. 30, 18.

nigrēsco, gruī, ere (nigreo), a) schwarz-, schwärzlich-, dunkelfarbig werden, einen dunklen Schein bekommen, solent in gravi morbo pedes cum digitis unguibusque nigrescere, Cels.: nigrescit cutis, nigrescunt dentes, Plin.: cum (bacae) iam nigruerint, Colum.: nigrescunt aera, Solin.: latices nigrescere sacros, Verg.: tenebris nigrescunt omnia circum, unser »es wird mir schwarz vor den Augen«, Verg.: nigrescunt sanguine venae, Ov. – im Bilde, livoris atri fumificae faces, nigrescit unde spes hominum et decus, Prud. perist. 14, 109. – b) v. Pers. = schwarze Haare bekommen, gens altera, quae in iuventute cana est, nigrescit in senectute, Solin. 52, 28.

See: nigrescere

nĭgrēscō, (14) grŭī, ĕre, intr., devenir noir, noircir : Plin. 15, 6 ; Virg. En. 4, 454 ; Col. Rust. 12, 48.

nigresco , is, escere. n. 3.
發黑。漸黑。

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nigrēscō —, ere, inch.

• niger, to become black, grow dark: tenebris nigrescunt omnia circum, V.: Corpore, O.