English → Latin
“snow” in Latin
nixsnow; white hair; synonym of cadmia, zinc oxidenivālissnowy; snow-coverednivōsusfull of snow, snowyniveussnow, snowy, snowclad, snow-covered; snow-whitedēlāborto fall, sink or slip down; to glide or fly down; to sink or descendoppleōto fill completely, fill up; cover; to fill, occupyningitto snow
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
snow s.
nix, genitive nivis, feminine; usually in plur., nives (of a great fall or quantity of snow). Consisting of snow, nivalis: full of snow, nivosus: white as snow, niveus: snow falls, nives cadunt (Sen.); delabuntur (Liv.): to be covered with snow, nivibus obrui, oppleri: the snow is deep, nix alta jacet (Verg.); altse nives premunt terram (Curt.): there is a deep fall of snow, plurima nix e caelo delabitur (Liv.); plurimae nives cadunt (Sen.): to make one’s way through the snow, nives eluctari (Tac., Hist., 3, 59): mountains covered with perpetual snow, montes perenni nive rigentes; montium juga perenni nive obruta (Curt., 7, 11, 8); montes in quibus nives ne aestus quidem solvit (after Sen., Ep. 79, 4): a snow-ball, *globus ex nive compactus; glebula nivis (Scribonius, Larg.); globus nivalis (Macrobius, Sat., 7, 12): a fall of snow, nivis casus (Liv., 21, 35): a flake of snow, floccus nivalis: a snow-storm, nives volantes; tempestas nivosa: a snow-drift, *agger niveus; *vis nivis exaggeratae; moles, magna vis nivium (after Cic.): a snow-boot, *calceus nivibus trajiciendis aptus factusque: snow-water, aqua nivalis (Gell.): *aqua ex nivibus resolutis; nives ex montibus prolutae (Caes., B.C., 1, 48); nives de montibus solutae (Ov., Met., 8, 556). To cut a road through the snow, nivem discindere atque ita viam patefacere.
snow v.
It snows, ningit; nives cadunt (Sen.), delabuntur (Liv.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for snow?
- The usual Latin words for “snow” are nix, nivālis, nivōsus; also niveus, dēlābor, oppleō. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.