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nigris

nigris is a Latin form of niger, meaning “black, dark”. It is the ablative plural masculine adjective.

Found 41 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Georgics 2.214: et tophus scaber et nigris exesa chelydris

Martial, Epigrammata 4.2.2: Nigris munus Horatius lacernis,

All forms of niger (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.