Latin

Adjective

niveus m ‎(feminine nivea, neuter niveum); first/second declension

1. snow (attributive); snowy
2. snow-white
   • 86 - 103 CE — Martial, Epigrammata, 5.43

     Thais habet nigros, niveos Laecania dentes
     Quae ratio est? Emptos haec habet, illa suos.

     Thais has black teeth, Laecania has snow-white.
     What's the reason? The latter has bought hers; the former has her own.

Inflection

First/second declension.

Related terms

Descendants

• Italian: niveo

References

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