gibbous

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Latin gibbus ‎(“humped, hunched”), probably cognate with cubō ‎(“bend oneself, lie down”), Italian gobba ‎(“humpback”), Greek κύφος ‎(kýfos, “humpback, bent”), κύβος ‎(kývos, “cube, vertebra”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪbəs/
• Rhymes: -ɪbəs

Adjective

gibbous ‎(comparative more gibbous, superlative most gibbous)

1. Characterized by convexity; protuberant.
   • 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, chapter 22

     In fact, what these gibbous human shapes specially represented was ready money—money insistently ready [...]

2. (astronomy) Phase of moon or planet between first quarter and full or between full and last quarter.
3. Humpbacked.
   • 1697, Dryden, Aeneid, book 8

     A pointed flinty rock, all bare and black,

     Grew gibbous from behind the mountain's back;

Derived terms

• gibbous moon

Translations

characterized by convexity; protuberant

• Bulgarian: издут (bg) ‎(izdut), изпъкнал (bg) ‎(izpǎknal)
• Finnish: kupera (fi)

phase of moon or planet

• Finnish: kupera (fi)
• French: gibbeux (fr) m, gibbeuse (fr) f

• Navajo: nitʼą́ą́ hanádzá
• Scottish Gaelic: crotach

humpbacked — see humpbacked