Opâco, opácas, pen. prod opacâre. Virg.To shadowe: to make darke as it is in woods vnder trees.Opacare. Colum. To couer.Rami opacant arborem.Virg.Ramns opacat humum.Virg.Couereth or shadoweth.Opácitas. pen. corr. opacitatis. f. g. Colum. Plin. Shadowe of trees or vmbrage.
Opacus, pen. prod. Adiecti. Virg.Shadowed, or in the shadowe: darke: obscure.Arbor opaca. Vir. Barba. Catull. A thicke beard.Crepuscula opaca.Ouid.Darke. Caligo. Ouid.Domus opaca intus.Virg.An bouse darke within.Frigus opacum. Vir. Blacke colde.Herba opaca.Ouid.An hearbe growing in the shadow.Latebræ opaciores. Colum. Opacus & Apricus locus, contraria.Cic.Opacus & frigidus locus in sylua.Cic.Lucis habitamus opacis. Vir. In darke woodes full of shadowe. Lustra opaca. Claud. Moutes vmbrantur opaci.Virg.Nemora opaca. Plin. Nox. Virg.Darke night.Nubes.Ouid. Quies. Stat.Ripa viridi & opaca inambulare.Cic.Ruris opaci vmbræ.Virg.Opaca sepes & munita vallo atboris. Plin. Sylua opaca.Ouid. Vallis opaca. Horat. Vlmus opaca.Virg. Vadere per opaca. Seneca. To go in dark shadowed places.Viarum opaca.Virg.Ferimur per opaca locorum.Virg.Opacissima nemorum ac montium, alta magis qum plana pascua. Colum.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ŏpāco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [id.], to cover with shade, to shade (class.; syn.: obscuro, obumbro). I.Lit.; platanus ad opacandum hunc locum patulis est diffusa ramis, Cic. de Or. 1, 7, 28, cf. id. Fragm. ap. Macr. S. 6, 4: ubi pinguem dives opacat Ramus humum, Verg. A. 6, 195: humum taxus opacat, Luc. 6, 645: (sol terras) modo his modo illis ex partibus opacat, Cic. N. D. 2, 19, 49.—B.Transf., to cover (poet.): opacat flore lanugo genas, Pac. ap. Fest. s. v. genas, p. 94 Müll.: opacat tempora pinus, Sil. 13, 331.— II.Trop., to darken, obscure, Aug. Mor. Eccl. Cath. 1, 2.
ŏpācus, a, um, adj.I.In the shade, shaded, shady (class.): opaca vocantur umbrosa, Fest. p. 185 Müll.: ripa, Cic. Leg. 1, 5, 15: frigus,
shady coolness
,
cool shade
, Verg. E. 1, 53: vallis, Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 5.—Comp.: locus umbrā opacior, Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 25.—Sup.: opacissima nemorum pascua, Col. 6, 22.—Neutr. absol.: colores, qui in opaco clarius micant,
in the shade
, Plin. 10, 20, 22, 43.—So in plur. with gen.: per opaca locorum,
through shady places
, Verg. A. 2, 725; 6, 633.—B.Transf.1.Darkened as if by shades, dark, obscure (poet. and in post-class. prose): nox, Verg. A. 4, 123: domus Cyclopis, id. ib. 3, 619: nubes, Ov. A. A. 2, 619: mater, i. e.