gibbous
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English gibbous, 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”), Spanish giboso (“humped”). Also ultimately compare dialectal Norwegian keiv (“slanted, wrong”) and Dutch scheef (“crooked, slanting”).
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gibbous (comparative more gibbous, superlative most gibbous)
- Characterized by convexity; protuberant.
- 1886 May, Thomas Hardy, “chapter 22”, in The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], OCLC 881857478:
- In fact, what these gibbous human shapes specially represented was ready money—money insistently ready [...]
- (astronomy, of a celestial body) Having more than half (but not the whole) of its disc illuminated.
- Humpbacked.
- 1697, Virgil, “The Eighth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
- A pointed flinty rock, all bare and black,
Grew gibbous from behind the mountain's back;
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characterized by convexity; protuberant
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phase of moon or planet
humpbacked — see humpbacked
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