imber

See also: Imber

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *n̥βris, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥bʰrís (rain-cloud, rain, cloud). Cognates include Sanskrit अभ्र (abhrá), meaning "cloud", Old Armenian ամբ (amb), Northern Kurdish ewr and possibly Ancient Greek ἀφρός (aphrós) and ὄμβρος (ómbros).

Pronunciation

Noun

imber m (genitive imbris); third declension

  1. rain
    • Caesar, de Bello Gallico VII, 24:
      Frigore et assiduis imbribus tardarentur
      Retarded by the cold and by the continuous rains
  2. a storm
  3. (poetic) a stormcloud

Declension

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References

  • imber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • imber”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • imber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a river swollen by the rain: flumen imbribus auctum
    • the rain continues: imber tenet (Liv. 23. 44. 6)
    • a sudden shower: imbres repente effusi
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