shady Copy link Outline 1. ŏpācus (shaded, dark with shade)2. umbrōsus (abounding in shade)3. umbrĭfer (casting a shade • shady: i. e. casting a shade, overspread with shade: 1. ŏpācus (shaded, dark with shade): on a green and s. bank, in viridi o.que ripa, Cic. Leg. 1, 5, 15: the shadiest pastures, opacissima nemorum pascua, Col. 6, 22. Sometimes = casting a shade (poet.): Virg. Aen. 11, 851 (o. ilex). 2. umbrōsus (abounding in shade): I have never seen a shadier place in summer, ego locum aestate umbrosiorem nunquam vidi, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 2. the s. wood, silva u., Ov. M. 1, 693. 3. umbrĭfer (casting a shade: poet.): under a s. plane-tree, snb platano u., Cic. Div. 2, 30, 63.
SHADOWY, SHADY Copy link • SHADOWY, SHADYopacus: umbrosus (the distinction between which, perhaps, is like that of shadowy and shady, but which probably was hardly observed or noticed; umbrifer, however = throwing a shade over, or affording shade, is poetical). This shady plane-tree, platanus, quae ad opacandum hunc locum patulis est diffusa ramis. Unsubstantial, Vid: Typical, Vid.