nubilus

Latin

Etymology

From nūbēs (“cloud”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

nūbilus (feminine nūbila, neuter nūbilum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. cloudy, overcast; cloud-bringing
  2. dark, gloomy, dim
  3. (figuratively) troubled, confused, beclouded
  4. (figuratively) sad, gloomy, melancholy

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative nūbilus nūbila nūbilum nūbilī nūbilae nūbila
genitive nūbilī nūbilae nūbilī nūbilōrum nūbilārum nūbilōrum
dative nūbilō nūbilae nūbilō nūbilīs
accusative nūbilum nūbilam nūbilum nūbilōs nūbilās nūbila
ablative nūbilō nūbilā nūbilō nūbilīs
vocative nūbile nūbila nūbilum nūbilī nūbilae nūbila

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: nior
    • Megleno-Romanian: nor
    • Romanian: nor, nour
  • Italo-Romance:
  • North-Italian:
    • Emilian: nuvla, nuvra, nóvvla
    • Friulian: nûl
    • Ladino: nigola
    • Ligurian: nuvia, nivoa, nivora, nivra, nugra
    • Lombard: nivola, nigola, nigol, niol, neul, niola, neuvra, niura, niur, nugra
    • Piedmontese: niola, niora, nìvora, nuvla, nùval
    • Romagnol: nuvla
    • Romansch: nivel, nüvl, nüvla
    • Venetan: nùvoło, nùvoła
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Aragonese: nublo, nuble
      • Ribagorçan: núvel
    • Catalan: núvol, núgol, nigul, núvel, núguel, nuvo, nuul, núvola
    • Franco-Provençal: niola
    • Occitan: nívol, nivol, nivòu
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Spanish: nublo
    • Portuguese: núvio, núvia (Northern Portugal)
  • Welsh: niwl

References

  • “nubilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "nubilus", 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)
  • “nubilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • nubilus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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