snow
snow
subs.
P. and V. χιών, ἡ, V. νῐφά̆ς, ἡ.
It snows, v.: Ar. and P. νί̆φει (Xen.), P. ἐπινίφει (Xen.).
It was winter and there was littte snow: P. χειμὼν ἦν καὶ ὑπένιφε (Thuc. 4.103).
Had it not snowed all over Thrace: Ar. εἰ μὴ κατένιψε χιόνι τὴν Θρᾴκην ὅλην (Ach. 138).
When it snows: P. ὅταν νίφῃ ὁ θεός (Xen. Cyn. 8), or ὅταν ἐπινίφῃ (Xen. Cyn. 8).
Snow-covered, adj.: V. νῐφοστῐβής, χιόνι κᾰτάρρῠτος (Eur. And. 215), Ar. νῐφόεις, νῐφόβολος, χιονόβλητος.
subs.
P. and V. χιών, ἡ, V. νῐφά̆ς, ἡ.
It snows, v.: Ar. and P. νί̆φει (Xen.), P. ἐπινίφει (Xen.).
It was winter and there was littte snow: P. χειμὼν ἦν καὶ ὑπένιφε (Thuc. 4.103).
Had it not snowed all over Thrace: Ar. εἰ μὴ κατένιψε χιόνι τὴν Θρᾴκην ὅλην (Ach. 138).
When it snows: P. ὅταν νίφῃ ὁ θεός (Xen. Cyn. 8), or ὅταν ἐπινίφῃ (Xen. Cyn. 8).
Snow-covered, adj.: V. νῐφοστῐβής, χιόνι κᾰτάρρῠτος (Eur. And. 215), Ar. νῐφόεις, νῐφόβολος, χιονόβλητος.
SNOW
s. nix genitive nivis feminine; usually in plur. nives (of a great fall or quantity of snow). Consisting of snow nivalis: full of snow nivosus: white as snow niveus: snow falls nives cadunt (Sen.); delabuntur (Liv.): to be covered with snow nivibus obrui oppleri: the snow is deep nix alta jacet (Verg.); altse nives premunt terram (Curt.): there is a deep fall of snow plurima nix e caelo delabitur (Liv.); plurimae nives cadunt (Sen.): to make one’s way through the snow nives eluctari (Tac. Hist. 3 59): mountains covered with perpetual snow montes perenni nive rigentes; montium juga perenni nive obruta (Curt. 7 11 8); montes in quibus nives ne aestus quidem solvit (after Sen. Ep. 79 4): a snow-ball *globus ex nive compactus; glebula nivis (Scribonius Larg.); globus nivalis (Macrobius Sat. 7 12): a fall of snow nivis casus (Liv. 21 35): a flake of snow floccus nivalis: a snow-storm nives volantes; tempestas nivosa: a snow-drift *agger niveus; *vis nivis exaggeratae; moles magna vis nivium (after Cic.): a snow-boot *calceus nivibus trajiciendis aptus factusque: snow-water aqua nivalis (Gell.): *aqua ex nivibus resolutis; nives ex montibus prolutae (Caes. B.C. 1 48); nives de montibus solutae (Ov. Met. 8 556). To cut a road through the snow nivem discindere atque ita viam patefacere.
s. nix genitive nivis feminine; usually in plur. nives (of a great fall or quantity of snow). Consisting of snow nivalis: full of snow nivosus: white as snow niveus: snow falls nives cadunt (Sen.); delabuntur (Liv.): to be covered with snow nivibus obrui oppleri: the snow is deep nix alta jacet (Verg.); altse nives premunt terram (Curt.): there is a deep fall of snow plurima nix e caelo delabitur (Liv.); plurimae nives cadunt (Sen.): to make one’s way through the snow nives eluctari (Tac. Hist. 3 59): mountains covered with perpetual snow montes perenni nive rigentes; montium juga perenni nive obruta (Curt. 7 11 8); montes in quibus nives ne aestus quidem solvit (after Sen. Ep. 79 4): a snow-ball *globus ex nive compactus; glebula nivis (Scribonius Larg.); globus nivalis (Macrobius Sat. 7 12): a fall of snow nivis casus (Liv. 21 35): a flake of snow floccus nivalis: a snow-storm nives volantes; tempestas nivosa: a snow-drift *agger niveus; *vis nivis exaggeratae; moles magna vis nivium (after Cic.): a snow-boot *calceus nivibus trajiciendis aptus factusque: snow-water aqua nivalis (Gell.): *aqua ex nivibus resolutis; nives ex montibus prolutae (Caes. B.C. 1 48); nives de montibus solutae (Ov. Met. 8 556). To cut a road through the snow nivem discindere atque ita viam patefacere.
v. It snows ningit; nives cadunt (Sen.) delabuntur (Liv.).
snow (subs.):
1. nix, nĭvis, f.: mount Cebenna with its very deep s. was a hindrance to the march, mons Cebenna altissima n. iter impediebat, Caes. B. G. 7, 8: when a path had been cut through the s. six feet deep, discissa nive sex in altitudinem pedum (discissa explained immediately afterwards by atque ita viis patefactis), ib.: new s. of moderate depth over old s., super veterem nivem nova modicae altitudinis, Liv. 21, 36, ad med.: hoary s. falling, n. cana cadens, Lucr. 3, 21: when the s. is on the ground, n. jacente (v. l. nivem jaciens), Plin. 2, 49, 50, § 133: melting s., tabida n., Liv. 21, 36, ad fin.: cf. tabes liquescentis n., ib. ad med.: when the s. begins to melt, (nive) liquescente, Plin. 8, 55, 81, § 217: rivers swollen with wintry s., fluvii hiberna n. turgidi, Hor. Od. 4, 12, 4. Also often in pl.: the soldier overwhelmed with s.s and frosts, miles nivibus pruinisque obrutus, Liv. 5, 2, med.: s.s hardened by frost, n. duratae gelu, Hor. Od. 3, 24, 39: the s.s melt away, pereunt n., Ov. F. 3, 2, 6: melted s.s., solutae n., id. Am. 3, 6, 93. Fig.: the s.s (or hoary locks) of the head, capitis nives, Hor. Od. 4, 13, 12 (a metaphor censured by Quint. 8, 6, ad med., as being far-fetched).
2. ninguis, is, f. (very rare: an antique form for preced.): white s.s, albae ningues, Lucr. 6, 735.
3. pruīna (poet.: lit. hoarfrost): the great bodies of the oxen stand imbedded in s., stant circumfusa pruinis corpora magna boum, Virg. G. 3, 368: cf. alto gelu, ib. 355. Join: nive pruinaque, Cic. N. D. 1, 10, 24: v. also supr. (1). Phr.: s., siccae aquae, Mart. 4, 3, 7: a fall of s., ningor, ōris, m., App. de Mundo, p. 309 (258): the region of s., nivalis axis, Val. Fl. 5, 225: eternal s.s, nives quas ne aestus quidem solvit, Gell.: cf. mountain-ridges capped with eternal s., montium juga perenni nive obruta, Curt. 7, 11, 8: cf. vertices (montium) aeterna nive obsessi, Sen. Q. N. 4, 11, ad fin.: to struggle through the s., nives eluctari, Tac. H. 3, 59: water filled with s. (for cooling wine), nivales undae, Mart. 14, 118: cf. aquam recentem de nive, ib. 117: a strainer filled with s. (through which generous wines were filtered), nivarium colum, Mart. 14, 103, in lemm.: cf. nivarius saccus, ib. 104, in lemm.: drinks cooled with s., potiones nivatae, Sen. Q. N. 4, 13, ad fin.: cf. aqua nivata, Petr. 31, ad init.: nivea aqua, Mart. 12, 17, 6: epotus nivis humor, Macr. S. 7, post med.
1. nix, nĭvis, f.: mount Cebenna with its very deep s. was a hindrance to the march, mons Cebenna altissima n. iter impediebat, Caes. B. G. 7, 8: when a path had been cut through the s. six feet deep, discissa nive sex in altitudinem pedum (discissa explained immediately afterwards by atque ita viis patefactis), ib.: new s. of moderate depth over old s., super veterem nivem nova modicae altitudinis, Liv. 21, 36, ad med.: hoary s. falling, n. cana cadens, Lucr. 3, 21: when the s. is on the ground, n. jacente (v. l. nivem jaciens), Plin. 2, 49, 50, § 133: melting s., tabida n., Liv. 21, 36, ad fin.: cf. tabes liquescentis n., ib. ad med.: when the s. begins to melt, (nive) liquescente, Plin. 8, 55, 81, § 217: rivers swollen with wintry s., fluvii hiberna n. turgidi, Hor. Od. 4, 12, 4. Also often in pl.: the soldier overwhelmed with s.s and frosts, miles nivibus pruinisque obrutus, Liv. 5, 2, med.: s.s hardened by frost, n. duratae gelu, Hor. Od. 3, 24, 39: the s.s melt away, pereunt n., Ov. F. 3, 2, 6: melted s.s., solutae n., id. Am. 3, 6, 93. Fig.: the s.s (
2. ninguis, is, f. (very rare: an antique form for preced.): white s.s, albae ningues, Lucr. 6, 735.
3. pruīna (poet.: lit. hoarfrost): the great bodies of the oxen stand imbedded in s., stant circumfusa pruinis corpora magna boum, Virg. G. 3, 368: cf. alto gelu, ib. 355. Join: nive pruinaque, Cic. N. D. 1, 10, 24: v. also supr. (1). Phr.: s., siccae aquae, Mart. 4, 3, 7: a fall of s., ningor, ōris, m., App. de Mundo, p. 309 (258): the region of s., nivalis axis, Val. Fl. 5, 225: eternal s.s, nives quas ne aestus quidem solvit, Gell.: cf. mountain-ridges capped with eternal s., montium juga perenni nive obruta, Curt. 7, 11, 8: cf. vertices (montium) aeterna nive obsessi, Sen. Q. N. 4, 11, ad fin.: to struggle through the s., nives eluctari, Tac. H. 3, 59: water filled with s. (for cooling wine), nivales undae, Mart. 14, 118: cf. aquam recentem de nive, ib. 117: a strainer filled with s. (through which generous wines were filtered), nivarium colum, Mart. 14, 103, in lemm.: cf. nivarius saccus, ib. 104, in lemm.: drinks cooled with s., potiones nivatae, Sen. Q. N. 4, 13, ad fin.: cf. aqua nivata, Petr. 31, ad init.: nivea aqua, Mart. 12, 17, 6: epotus nivis humor, Macr. S. 7, post med.
snow (v.):
1. ningo (ninguo), nxit, 3 (mostly impers.): it s.s, ningit, Col. 11, 2, ad med. (p. 429, Bipont Ed.): ninguit, Virg. G. 3, 367. Also in pass. form: it rains and s.s, pluitur et ningitur, App. Flor. p. 340 (112). May be also expr. by nives cadunt, Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 234: nives decidunt (Georg.): it s.s heavily, plurima nix e coelo delabitur (Georg.).
2. nĭvit, 3 (very rare and pre-class.: only in fig. sense): it hails, it s.s arrows, lead and stones, sagittis plumbo et saxis grandinat, nivit, Pac. in Non. 507, 27.
1. ningo (ninguo), nxit, 3 (mostly impers.): it s.s, ningit, Col. 11, 2, ad med. (p. 429, Bipont Ed.): ninguit, Virg. G. 3, 367. Also in pass. form: it rains and s.s, pluitur et ningitur, App. Flor. p. 340 (112). May be also expr. by nives cadunt, Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 234: nives decidunt (Georg.): it s.s heavily, plurima nix e coelo delabitur (Georg.).
2. nĭvit, 3 (very rare and pre-class.: only in fig. sense): it hails, it s.s arrows, lead and stones, sagittis plumbo et saxis grandinat, nivit, Pac. in Non. 507, 27.