nixa

nixa is a Latin form of nitor, meaning “(verb nitor, niti) lean on, rely on; strive, struggle; (noun nitor) brightness, splendor”. It is the perfect deponent participle nominative singular feminine or perfect deponent participle accusative plural neuter.

Found 27 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.108: … m caput attingens defessa velut maerentis imago vertitur, quam quidem Graeci Engonasin vocitant, genibus quia nixa feratur. hic illa eximio posita est fulgore Corona. Atque haec quidem a tergo, propter caput autem Anguitenen …

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.