Nidus, nidi, m. g. Plin. A nest: the young birdes in the nest: a vessell like a nest: a boxe or chest, wherein grossers or merchers put ware.Aditus nidi, Vide ADEO, adis.Nidi apium.Virg.Excelsus nidus.Val. Flac.Verni nidi.Stat. Dulces nidi, Virg.Pendens nidus.Ouid. Tepentes nidi. Stat. Abducere in diuersum nido. Vide ABDVCO. Construere sibi nidum.Ouid.To make him selfe a nest.Cubilia sibi nidósq; construunt, eósque qum possunt mollissimè substernunt gallinæ auésque reliquæ.Cic.Demptus cacumine nidus.Ouid.Detrahere aues nido.Virg.To take birdes out of the nest.Egredi hidis. Quint. Fingunt & construunt nidos volucres.Cicer.Birdes fashion and make nests.Migrare nidum, Vide MIGRO.Struere nidum. Tac. Texere nidos. Quint. Nidus aliquando accipitur pro fœtu auium. Virgil. Young birdes in the nest.Loquaces nidi.Virg.Chirping young birdes.Queruli nidi.Senec. Nidus. Varro. Pro poculo ad nidorum similitudinem facto. Nonius. Nidi dicuntur in quibus merces in tabernis separatim tenentur.Boxes.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
nīdus, i, m. [kindred with Sanscr. nīda and the Germ. and Engl. nest], a nest.I.Lit.: fingere et construere nidos, Cic. de Or. 2, 6, 23: tignis nidum suspendit hirundo, Verg. G. 4, 307: facere, Ov. M. 8, 257: ponere, Hor. C. 4, 12, 5: struere, Tac. A. 6, 28; Plin. 10, 33, 49, 92: confingere, id. 10, 33, 49, 93.—Plur., of a single nest: propria cum jam facit arbore nidos, Juv. 14, 80.—Poet.: majores pennas nido extendere, i. e.
to raise one's self above one's birth
, Hor. Ep. 1, 20, 21.—II.Transf.A.The young birds in a nest (poet.): nidi loquaces, Verg. A. 12, 475; id. G. 4, 17: nidi queruli, Sen. Herc. Fur. 148.—2.Transf.(a). Of three children at a birth: loquax, Juv. 5, 143.—(b).A litter of pigs in a sty, Col. 7, 9, 13.—B.A receptacle, case, for books or goods, Mart. 1, 118, 15; 7, 17, 5.—C.A dwelling, residence, house, home: tu nidum servas, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 6: celsae Acherontiae, id. C. 3, 4, 14 (cf. Cic. de Or. 1, 44, 196): senectae, Aus. Mos. 449: nequitiae nidum fecit, Pub. Syr. Sent. v. 10 Rib.—D.A vessel in the shape of a nest, a bowl, goblet: nidus potilis, Varr. ap. Non. 145, 3 (Sat. Men. 77, 8).
