nitens

nitens is a Latin form of nitor, meaning “(verb nitor, niti) lean on, rely on; strive, struggle; (noun nitor) brightness, splendor”. It is the present active participle accusative singular neuter or present active participle nominative singular masculine or present active participle vocative singular masculine or present active participle nominative singular feminine.

It can also be a form of niteo, “shine, gleam; look sleek, thrive”.

Found 44 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.109: … em, atque eius ipse manet religatus corpore torto; namque virum medium Serpens sub pectora cingit. ille tamen nitens graviter vestigia ponit atque oculos urget pedibus pectusque Nepai. Septentriones autem sequitur Arctophylax, …

Jerome, Epistolae 117.6·2: … et ad Orphei citharam arbores bestiasque ac silicum dura mollita. Difficile inter epulas servatur pudicitia. Nitens cutis sordidum ostentat animum.

All forms of nitor (conjugation 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.