ningit
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sneygʷʰ- (“to snow”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈnɪŋ.ɡɪt]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈnin̠ʲ.d͡ʒit̪]
Verb
ningit (present infinitive ningere, perfect active nīnxit); third conjugation, impersonal, no passive, no supine stem
Conjugation
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | — | — | ningit | — | — | — | ||||||
| imperfect | — | — | ningēbat | — | — | — | |||||||
| future | — | — | ninget | — | — | — | |||||||
| perfect | — | — | nīnxit | — | — | — | |||||||
| pluperfect | — | — | nīnxerat | — | — | — | |||||||
| future perfect | — | — | nīnxerit | — | — | — | |||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | present | — | — | ningat | — | — | — | ||||||
| imperfect | — | — | ningeret | — | — | — | |||||||
| perfect | — | — | nīnxerit | — | — | — | |||||||
| pluperfect | — | — | nīnxisset | — | — | — | |||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||||||||
| active | future | — | — | ningitō | — | — | — | ||||||
| non-finite forms | infinitive | participle | |||||||||||
| active | passive | active | passive | ||||||||||
| present | ningere | — | ningēns | — | |||||||||
| perfect | nīnxisse | — | — | — | |||||||||
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||||||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||||||||
| ningendī | ningendō | ningendum | ningendō | — | — | ||||||||
Related terms
- nix
- nivit
Descendants
- Romanian: ninge
- Central Italian: nigne (Maceratese), nengue (Umbrian)
References
- “ningit”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ningit”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ningit in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ningit, -ere”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 409-10