imber
See also: Imber
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From earlier *imbris, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥bʰrís (“rain-cloud, rain, cloud”). Cognates include Sanskrit अभ्र (abhrá), meaning "cloud" in Modern Hindi, Old Armenian ամբ (amb), Kurdish Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "ku" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. and possibly Ancient Greek ἀφρός (aphrós) and ὄμβρος (ómbros).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈim.ber/, [ˈɪmbɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈim.ber/, [ˈimber]
Noun
imber m (genitive imbris); third declension
- rain
- a storm
- (poetic) a stormcloud
Declension
Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | imber | imbrēs |
Genitive | imbris | imbrium |
Dative | imbrī | imbribus |
Accusative | imbrem | imbrēs imbrīs |
Ablative | imbre imbrī |
imbribus |
Vocative | imber | imbrēs |
Synonyms
Derived terms
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[1], 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
- a river swollen by the rain: flumen imbribus auctum