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語源

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sneygʷʰ- (“to snow”).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈnɪŋ.ɡɪt]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈnin̠ʲ.d͡ʒit]

動詞

ningit (present infinitive ningere, perfect active nīnxit); third conjugation, impersonal, no passive, no supine stem

1. to snow

   Synonym: (Old Latin) nivit

   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 3.366–367:

     […] Stiriaque impexis induruit horrida barbis,
     Interea toto non setius aere ningit.

     […] hoarfrost clings to their uncombed, shaggy beards while the whole sky keeps on sheding snow.

Conjugation

NB: plural and passive forms are attested in poetry.

関連する語

• nix
• nivit

派生した語

• Romanian: ninge
• Central Italian: nigne (Maceratese), nengue (Umbrian)

参照

• “ningit”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ningit”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ningit”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.