nivosus Latin · revision 36347

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=late 1st century BC, Livy and Ovid|origins=ine-pro *snígʷʰs}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [nɪˈwoː.sʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [niˈvɔː.s̬us]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''nivōsus''' (feminine nivōsa, neuter nivōsum); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|nix|-ōsus|t1=snow|t2=full of]], built on the stem ⟨niv-⟩ of the oblique cases.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The noun goes back to [[itc-pro|*sniks]] and [[ine-pro|*snígʷʰs|t=snow]].^(Wiktionary) Cognate with [[grc|νίψ|tr=níps]] and [[sga|snechtae]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Ovid;^(Köbler 2010) his contemporary Livy has ''hiems gelida ac nivōsa'', a cold and snowy winter.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It is said mostly of places and of seasons full of snow:^(OLD 2012) Ovid's snowy Strymon and Scythia, Columella's very cold and snowy places, and Livy's snowy hail.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Georges 1913) Of winds and constellations it meant bringing snow, as of a star group in Statius.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010) British medieval writers used it for full of or covered with snow.^(DMLBS)

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+ It lives on in [[it|nevoso]], [[es|nevoso]] and [[ro|neios]], and French borrowed it as [[m|fr|nivôse]].^(Wiktionary)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy speaks of a snowy winter.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid calls the Strymon and Scythia snowy.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1st century AD – Columella speaks of cold, snowy places.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 45–96 AD – Statius uses it of a snow-bringing constellation.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Full of [[m|en|snow]], [[m|en|snowy]] (of places and seasons).^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # (of winds and constellations) Bringing snow.^(OLD 2012)^(Conte 2010)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[nix]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}