nubilo

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

nūbilus (cloudy”, “overcast, adjective) and/or nūbilum (cloud”, “cloudiness, noun) +‎ (suffix forming first-conjugation verbs)

Verb

nūbilō (present infinitive nūbilāre); first conjugation, no perfect or supine stems

  1. (impersonal, literally) to be or become cloudy or overcast
  2. (transferred sense, intransitive, of something clear or translucent) to become clouded or opaque
  3. (Late Latin, transitive, figuratively) to overshadow, to obscure, to darken, to adumbrate
Conjugation
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Asturian: nublar
  • English: nubilate
  • Galician: nubrar, anubiar, anubrar
  • Portuguese: nublar
  • Spanish: nublar

References

  • nūbĭlo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • nūbĭlo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,042/3.
  • nūbilō” on page 1,198/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “nubilare”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 724/1
  • nubilo in Ramminger, Johann (27 February 2003 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective

nūbilō

  1. dative/ablative singular masculine/neuter of nūbilus

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

nūbilō

  1. dative/ablative singular of nūbilum