nuve

Given the total absence of final nasal reflex in Galician, from Latin nūbes rather than from a hypothetical Vulgar Latin root *nūbine-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnu.βe/

nuve f (plural nuves)

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   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 419 (facsimile):

     […] mais ſei eu que nẽllur / achar nona podedes / quant o breton artur / ca eu a ui na nuue / ſobir eme chamou.

     […] but I know that you can find her nowhere; any more than you can find the Breton Arthur, because I saw her ascending on a cloud and she spoke to me.

• Galician: nube
• Portuguese: nuvem, nuve

• nue
• nube

From Latin nūbēs.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnube/

nuve f (plural nuves)

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