gibber
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Uncertain; usually regarded as a back-formation from gibberish (see gibberish for more).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gibber (countable and uncountable, plural gibbers)
- Gibberish, unintelligible speech.
Verb[edit]
gibber (third-person singular simple present gibbers, present participle gibbering, simple past and past participle gibbered)
- To jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently.
Synonyms[edit]
- See also Thesaurus:chatter
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Etymology 2[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
gibber (plural gibbers)
- (Australia) A stone or rock, of chalcedony or similar mineral, found strewn over arid regions of inland Australia; a gibber stone. [from late 19th c.]
- (Australia, colloquial) Any small rock or stone, especially one used for throwing.
- 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 90:
- “Well, all I can say is that if yer don't take yer dial outer the road I'll bloomin' well take an' bounce a gibber off yer crust.”
- (Australia, obsolete) A large boulder or rocky outcrop; also, an overhanging rock formation. [from early 19th c.]
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Etymology 3[edit]
Noun[edit]
gibber (plural gibbers)
- A balky horse.
- 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
- A hasty and passionate breaker will often make a really goodtempered young horse an inveterate gibber
- 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
References[edit]
“gibber”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Italic *gīfri- (“hump”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *geybʰ- (“bowed, curved, crooked, skew”), and cognate with Lithuanian geĩbti (“to decline, become weak”), Norwegian Bokmål keive (“the left hand”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡib.ber/, [ˈɡɪbːɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒib.ber/, [ˈd͡ʒibːer]
Adjective[edit]
gibber (feminine gibbera, neuter gibberum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | gibber | gibbera | gibberum | gibberī | gibberae | gibbera | |
Genitive | gibberī | gibberae | gibberī | gibberōrum | gibberārum | gibberōrum | |
Dative | gibberō | gibberō | gibberīs | ||||
Accusative | gibberum | gibberam | gibberum | gibberōs | gibberās | gibbera | |
Ablative | gibberō | gibberā | gibberō | gibberīs | |||
Vocative | gibber | gibbera | gibberum | gibberī | gibberae | gibbera |
Noun[edit]
gibber m (genitive gibberis); third declension
Declension[edit]
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | gibber | gibberēs |
Genitive | gibberis | gibberum |
Dative | gibberī | gibberibus |
Accusative | gibberem | gibberēs |
Ablative | gibbere | gibberibus |
Vocative | gibber | gibberēs |
Synonyms[edit]
- (hump, hunch): gibbus
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Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “gibber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- gibber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 260
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