ningit

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sneygʷʰ- (“to snow”).[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

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

  1. to snow; to be snowing
    • 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

   Conjugation of ningit (third conjugation, impersonal, no passive, no supine stem)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — — ningit — — —
imperfect — — ningēbat — — —
future — — ninget — — —
perfect — — nīnxit — — —
pluperfect — — nīnxerat — — —
future perfect — — nīnxerit — — —
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — — ningat — — —
imperfect — — ningeret — — —
perfect — — nīnxerit — — —
pluperfect — — nīnxisset — — —
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active future — — ningitō — — —
non-finite forms infinitive participle
active passive active passive
present ningere — ningēns —
perfect nīnxisse — — —
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
ningendī ningendō ningendum ningendō — —

Descendants

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

References

  • “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.
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “ningit, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 409-10
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