nebula

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An emission nebula

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin nebula (little cloud, mist). Akin to Ancient Greek νεφέλη (nephélē, cloud), German Nebel (mist, nebula), Old Norse nifl, Polish niebo (sky, heaven), Russian не́бо (nébo, sky).

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  • enPR: neb'jə-lə, IPA(key): /ˈnɛbjʊlə/
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nebula (plural nebulae or nebulas or (obsolete) nebulæ)

  1. (astronomy) A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes).
    • 2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:
      Approximately 5 billion years ago, our solar nebula was formed as gravitational forces pulled interstellar gas and dust into a swirling mass around out newly formed sun.
  2. (archaic, medicine) A white spot or slight opacity of the cornea.
  3. (obsolete, medicine) A cloudy appearance in the urine.

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Noun[edit]

nebula (plural nebulas)

  1. fog, mist, haze
  2. (pathology) nebula

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin nebula. Doublet of nebbia, which was inherited.

Noun[edit]

nebula f (plural nebule)

  1. (archaic) fog, mist; cloud
  2. nebula

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Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Italic *neβelā, from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (cloud). Cognate with Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos), νεφέλη (nephélē), Old High German nebul, Sanskrit नभस् (nábhas), Old Church Slavonic небо (nebo).

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nebula f (genitive nebulae); first declension

  1. fog
  2. cloud
  3. vapor
  4. nebula

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative nebula nebulae
Genitive nebulae nebulārum
Dative nebulae nebulīs
Accusative nebulam nebulās
Ablative nebulā nebulīs
Vocative nebula nebulae

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  • nebula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • nebula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • nebula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • nebula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette