nebula
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin nebula (“little cloud, mist”). Akin to Ancient Greek νεφέλη (nephélē, “cloud”), German Nebel (“mist, nebula”), Old Norse nifl, Polish niebo (“sky, heaven”), Russian не́бо (nébo, “sky”).
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Noun edit
nebula (plural nebulae or nebulas or (obsolete) nebulæ)
- (astronomy) A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes).
- Hyponyms: emission nebula, pulsar wind nebula, supernova remnant
- 2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:
- Approximately 5 billion years ago, our solar nebula was formed as gravitational forces pulled interstellar gas and dust into a swirling mass around out newly formed sun.
- (archaic, medicine) A white spot or slight opacity of the cornea.
- (obsolete, medicine) A cloudy appearance in the urine.
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a space cloud
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See also edit
- plerion
- nova remnant
- supernova remnant
- Herbig-Haro object
- Bok globule
- interstellar cloud
- intergalactic cloud
- high velocity cloud
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nebula
- Synonym of tähtisumu
Declension edit
Inflection of nebula (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | nebula | nebulat | ||
genitive | nebulan | nebuloiden nebuloitten | ||
partitive | nebulaa | nebuloita | ||
illative | nebulaan | nebuloihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | nebula | nebulat | ||
accusative | nom. | nebula | nebulat | |
gen. | nebulan | |||
genitive | nebulan | nebuloiden nebuloitten nebulainrare | ||
partitive | nebulaa | nebuloita | ||
inessive | nebulassa | nebuloissa | ||
elative | nebulasta | nebuloista | ||
illative | nebulaan | nebuloihin | ||
adessive | nebulalla | nebuloilla | ||
ablative | nebulalta | nebuloilta | ||
allative | nebulalle | nebuloille | ||
essive | nebulana | nebuloina | ||
translative | nebulaksi | nebuloiksi | ||
abessive | nebulatta | nebuloitta | ||
instructive | — | nebuloin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Interlingua edit
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nebula (plural nebulas)
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin nebula. Doublet of nebbia, which was inherited.
Noun edit
nebula f (plural nebule)
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *neβelā, from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (“cloud”). Cognate with Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos), νεφέλη (nephélē), Old High German nebul, Sanskrit नभस् (nábhas), Old Church Slavonic небо (nebo).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈne.bu.la/, [ˈnɛbʊɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈne.bu.la/, [ˈnɛːbulä]
Noun edit
nebula f (genitive nebulae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | nebula | nebulae |
Genitive | nebulae | nebulārum |
Dative | nebulae | nebulīs |
Accusative | nebulam | nebulās |
Ablative | nebulā | nebulīs |
Vocative | nebula | nebulae |
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- Aromanian: negurã, negure
- Catalan: neula
- Old Francoprovençal: niola
- Franco-Provençal: niola
- Old French: niule, neble
- Galician: nebra
- Italian: nebbia
- Occitan: nèbla
- Old Galician-Portuguese: nevoa
- Romanian: negură
- Romansch: nebla, neabla
- Sardinian: nébida, neula
- Sicilian: negghia, nìvula
- Spanish: niebla, ⇒ neblina
- Venetian: nebia, nibia
- Borrowings:
References edit
- “nebula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nebula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nebula 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)
- nebula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.