nigellus

== Latin == === Etymology === From niger (“black”) +‎ -lus. === Adjective === nigellus (feminine nigella, neuter nigellum); first/second-declension adjective diminutive of niger (“black”): somewhat black ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== nigella ==== Descendants ==== === References === Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “nĭgĕllus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 7: N–Pas, page 128 === Further reading === “nigellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "nigellus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “nigellus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.