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gibber

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

Uncertain; usually regarded as a back-formation from gibberish (see gibberish for more).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɪbə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪbə(ɹ)

Noun edit

gibber (countable and uncountable, plural gibbers)

  1. Gibberish, unintelligible speech.

Verb edit

gibber (third-person singular simple present gibbers, present participle gibbering, simple past and past participle gibbered)

  1. To jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently.
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Etymology 2 edit

From Dharug giba.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɪbə/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun edit

gibber (plural gibbers)

  1. (Australia) A stone or rock, of chalcedony or similar mineral, found strewn over arid regions of inland Australia; a gibber stone. [from late 19th c.]
  2. (Australia, colloquial) Any small rock or stone, especially one used for throwing.
    • 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 90:
      “Well, all I can say is that if yer don't take yer dial outer the road I'll bloomin' well take an' bounce a gibber off yer crust.”
  3. (Australia, obsolete) A large boulder or rocky outcrop; also, an overhanging rock formation. [from early 19th c.]
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Etymology 3 edit

gib +‎ -er

Noun edit

gibber (plural gibbers)

  1. A balky horse.
    • 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
      A hasty and passionate breaker will often make a really goodtempered young horse an inveterate gibber

References edit

“gibber”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Italic *gīfri- (“hump”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *geybʰ- (“bowed, curved, crooked, skew”), and cognate with Lithuanian geĩbti (“to decline, become weak”), Norwegian Bokmål keive (“the left hand”).[1]

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Adjective edit

gibber (feminine gibbera, neuter gibberum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

  1. humpbacked, hunchbacked

Declension edit

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative gibber gibbera gibberum gibberī gibberae gibbera
Genitive gibberī gibberae gibberī gibberōrum gibberārum gibberōrum
Dative gibberō gibberō gibberīs
Accusative gibberum gibberam gibberum gibberōs gibberās gibbera
Ablative gibberō gibberā gibberō gibberīs
Vocative gibber gibbera gibberum gibberī gibberae gibbera

Noun edit

gibber m (genitive gibberis); third declension

  1. a hump, hunch on the back

Declension edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gibber gibberēs
Genitive gibberis gibberum
Dative gibberī gibberibus
Accusative gibberem gibberēs
Ablative gibbere gibberibus
Vocative gibber gibberēs

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References edit

  • “gibber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • gibber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 260
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