imber
See also: Imber
Latin
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Italic *n̥βris, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥bʰrís (“rain-cloud, rain, cloud”). Cognates include Sanskrit अभ्र (abhrá), meaning "cloud", Old Armenian ամբ (amb), Northern Kurdish ewr and possibly Ancient Greek ἀφρός (aphrós) and ὄμβρος (ómbros).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈim.ber/, [ˈɪmbɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈim.ber/, [ˈimber]
Noun
editimber m (genitive imbris); third declension
- rain
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.24:
- Frigore et assiduis imbribus tardarentur
- Retarded by the cold and by the continuous rains
- Frigore et assiduis imbribus tardarentur
- a storm
- (poetic) a stormcloud
Declension
editThird-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | imber | imbrēs |
Genitive | imbris | imbrium |
Dative | imbrī | imbribus |
Accusative | imbrem | imbrēs imbrīs |
Ablative | imbre imbrī |
imbribus |
Vocative | imber | imbrēs |
Synonyms
editDerived terms
editReferences
edit- “imber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “imber”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- imber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a river swollen by the rain: flumen imbribus auctum
- the rain continues: imber tenet (Liv. 23. 44. 6)
- a sudden shower: imbres repente effusi
- a river swollen by the rain: flumen imbribus auctum
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