nubilus

Latin

Etymology

From nūbēs (“cloud”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnuː.bi.lus/, [ˈnuːbɪɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnu.bi.lus/, [ˈnuːbilus]

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.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	nūbilus	nūbila	nūbilum		nūbilī	nūbilae	nūbila
Genitive	nūbilī	nūbilae	nūbilī		nūbilōrum	nūbilārum	nūbilōrum
Dative	nūbilō		nūbilō		nūbilīs
Accusative	nūbilum	nūbilam	nūbilum		nūbilōs	nūbilās	nūbila
Ablative	nūbilō	nūbilā	nūbilō		nūbilīs
Vocative	nūbile	nūbila	nūbilum		nūbilī	nūbilae	nūbila

Synonyms

• (cloudy): cālīginōsus, nūbigōsus, nūbilōsus

Derived terms

• nūbila
• nūbilō
• nūbilōsus
• nūbilum

Related terms

• nūbēcula
• nūbēs
• nūbifer
• nūbificus
• nūbifugus
• nūbigena
• nūbiger
• nūbigōsus
• nūbilārium
• nūbivagus

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: nior
  • Megleno-Romanian: nor
  • Romanian: nor, nour
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: nivulu
  • Italian: nuvolo, nuvola, nugolo
  • Sicilian: nuvula
• 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
  • Venetian: 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
• 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.