nimbus

Borrowed from Latin nimbus (“dark cloud”). Doublet of nimb.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɪm.bəs/

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• Rhymes: -ɪmbəs

nimbus (plural nimbi or nimbuses)

1. A circle of light; a halo.
2. A gray rain cloud.

• (circle of light): In heraldry and art, a nimbus may be considered distinct from a halo. The term halo can refer to an open ring of light or of gold behind the head of a saint, while nimbus refers to a solid disk of light or gold.

• (circle of light): halo

• nimbed

• halo

• nimbe

Learned borrowing from Latin nimbus. Doublet of nimbe.

nimbus m (invariable)

1. nimbus (cloud)

• “nimbus” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Learned borrowing from Latin nimbus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnimbus/, [ˈnimbus̠]
• Rhymes: -imbus
• Hyphenation^(key): nim‧bus

nimbus

1. Synonym of sadepilvi (“nimbus”)

Seemingly from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (“cloud”) with an *-n- infix, but the formal details are disputed.^[1] Possibly contaminated either by a zero-grade variant *imbus or by the related word imber (“rain”), if not borrowed from another Indo-European language. Cognates include Latin nebula, Proto-Slavic *nebo (“heaven, sky”), Sanskrit नभस् (nábhas, “sky”) and Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos, “cloud”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnim.bus/, [ˈnɪmbʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnim.bus/, [ˈnimbus]

nimbus m (genitive nimbī); second declension

1. rainstorm, rain shower
2. rain cloud, thunder cloud, storm cloud
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.51–52:

     nimbōrum in patriam, loca fēta furentibus Austrīs,
     Aeoliam venit.

     In the homeland of storm clouds, a place teeming with raging South winds, [Queen Juno] reached Aeolia.
     (See Aeolia (mythical island); Anemoi.)

3. cloud
4. halo (visible aura of divine power)
5. throng
6. (figuratively) calamity, tempest

Second-declension noun.

• nebula
• nūbēs
• nūbifer
• nūbigena
• nūbilum
• nūbilus

• “nimbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nimbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nimbus 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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “nimbus”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.

 

Learned borrowing from Latin nimbus, from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɲim.bus/

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• Rhymes: -imbus
• Syllabification: nim‧bus

nimbus m inan

1. nimbus (rain cloud)
2. (archaic, art, Christianity) aureole, glory, halo, nimbus (luminous disc around the heads of saints in sacred art)

   Synonyms: aureola, gloria, nimb

• nimbus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• nimbus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French nimbus.

nimbus m (plural nimbuși)

1. nimbus

nimbus m (Cyrillic spelling нимбус)

1. (religion) halo
2. nimbus

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