Lewis Short
(verb) : ningit or ninguit, ēbat, nxit, 3, Gr. νίφει; cf. nix, and v. Serv. Verg. A. 4, 250
* It snows.
* Lit.: ningit,Col. 11, 2, 31; Verg. G. 3, 367: cum ninxerit caelestium molem mihi, Att. ap. Prisc. p. 882 P. (Trag. Rel. v. 101 Rib.).
* In the pass. form: totum istud spatium, quā pluitur et ninguitur,App. Flor. 1, p. 340, 39.—*
* Transf., to shower down, scatter: ningunt rosarum Floribus,Lucr. 2, 627.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary