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niveous

\NIV-ee-uhs\

adjective
1. resembling snow, especially in whiteness; snowy.

Quotes

You contemplate all the hours you sat attentive and alert on the flight deck, and how you never grew less enamored of the niveous white magnificence of clouds as you gazed down at them from thirty or thirty-five thousand feet.
-- Chris Bohjalian, The Night Strangers, 2011

Origin

Niveous stems from the Latin root nix, meaning "snow." -Eous is an adjectival suffix denoting that something has the nature of the stem.

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Saturday, January 3, 2015

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caminar, verb
to walk

We tend to use automobiles so much we might be in danger of forgetting one of humankind’s basic activities: caminar to walk.

Caminando por la calle yo te vi.
When I was walking down the street I saw you.

Caminando por la calle is the title of a flamenco-style song by the Spanish band The Gipsy Kings.

Hemos venido caminando.
We walked here.

From the idea of walking comes the idea of a less literal moving or heading towards:

El gobierno caminaba hacia la dictadura.
The government was heading or moving towards a dictatorship.

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