imber

See also: Imber

Latin

Alternative forms

• ymber

Etymology

From 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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈim.ber/, [ˈɪmbɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈim.ber/, [ˈimber]

Noun

imber m (genitive imbris); third declension

1. 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

2. a storm
3. (poetic) a stormcloud

Declension

Third-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

• pluvia

Derived terms

• imbrex
• imbricus
• imbridus
• imbrifer

References

• “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