nigrans
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Present participle of nīgro (“be black, make black, darken”).
Participle[edit]
nigrāns (genitive nigrantis); third-declension one-termination participle
- being black, black
- Vergil, Aeneid, V.97
- totidem nigrantis terga iuvencos
- as many dark-backed heifers.
- totidem nigrantis terga iuvencos
- Vergil, Aeneid, V.97
- darkening
Declension[edit]
Third-declension participle.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | nigrāns | nigrantēs | nigrantia | ||
| Genitive | nigrantis | nigrantium | |||
| Dative | nigrantī | nigrantibus | |||
| Accusative | nigrantem | nigrāns | nigrantēs nigrantīs |
nigrantia | |
| Ablative | nigrante nigrantī1 |
nigrantibus | |||
| Vocative | nigrāns | nigrantēs | nigrantia | ||
1When used purely as an adjective.
References[edit]
- “nigrans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nigrans”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers