I.v. inch. n. (usu. ī) [id.], to become black, grow dark (poet. and post-Aug. prose): “latices nigrescere sacros, etc.,” Verg. A. 4, 454: “tenebris nigrescere,” id. ib. 11, 824: “nigrescunt sanguine venae,” Ov. A. A. 3, 503: “baca incipiens nigrescere,” Plin. 15, 1, 2, § 6: “nigrescens cutis,” id. 26, 1, 5, § 7: “nigrescentes dentes,” id. 31, 10, 46, § 117: “bacae cum jam nigruerint,” Col. 12, 48: “dies nigrescet,” Vulg. Ezech. 30, 18.
nī^gresco , grŭi, 3,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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