nubilus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From nūbēs (“cloud”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈnuː.bi.lus/, [ˈnuːbɪɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈnu.bi.lus/, [ˈnuːbilus]
Adjective[edit]
nūbilus (feminine nūbila, neuter nūbilum); first/second-declension adjective
- cloudy, overcast; cloud-bringing
- dark, gloomy, dim
- (figuratively) troubled, confused, beclouded
- (figuratively) sad, gloomy, melancholy
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | nūbilus | nūbila | nūbilum | nūbilī | nūbilae | nūbila | |
| Genitive | nūbilī | nūbilae | nūbilī | nūbilōrum | nūbilārum | nūbilōrum | |
| Dative | nūbilō | nūbilō | nūbilīs | ||||
| Accusative | nūbilum | nūbilam | nūbilum | nūbilōs | nūbilās | nūbila | |
| Ablative | nūbilō | nūbilā | nūbilō | nūbilīs | |||
| Vocative | nūbile | nūbila | nūbilum | nūbilī | nūbilae | nūbila | |
Synonyms[edit]
- (cloudy): cālīginōsus, nūbigōsus, nūbilōsus
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- Aromanian: nior
- Catalan: núvol
- Corsican: nivulu
- Emilian: nóvvla
- Friulian: nûl
- Italian: nuvolo, nuvola, nugolo
- Ladino: nigola
- Lombard: nivola, nigola, nugra
- Megleno-Romanian: nor
- Occitan: nívol
- Romanian: nor, nour
- Romansch: nivel, nüvl, nüvla
- Sicilian: nuvula
- Spanish: nublo
- Venetian: nùvoło, nùvoła
- Welsh: niwl
References[edit]
- “nubilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- nubilus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “nubilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nubilus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.