nubes

See also: ñubes

Asturian

Noun

nubes

1. plural of nube

Galician

Noun

nubes

1. plural of nube

Latin

nūbēs (a cloud)

Alternative forms

• nūbis (post-classical, Vulgar Latin)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *nouðetis, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)newdʰ-e-ti-s, from *(s)newdʰ- (“to cover”). Cognate with Welsh nudd (“haze”), Avestan 𐬯𐬥𐬀𐬊𐬜𐬀 (snaoδa, “clouds”), Baluchi [script needed] (nod, “raincloud”). Note that despite similar pronunciation and semantics, not related to nebula (“mist, fog”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnuː.beːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnuː.bes]

Noun

nūbēs f (genitive nūbis); third declension

1. cloud
   • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 6.156–157:

     Denique saepe geli multus fragor atque ruina
     grandinis in magnis sonitum dat nubibus alte;

     • Translation by William Ellery Leonard

       And down-pour of swift hail gives forth a sound
       Among the mighty clouds on high; […]

2. swarm, multitude

   Synonyms: multitūdō, mōlēs, frequentia, acervus, ūbertās, cōpia

3. phantom, something insubstantial
4. cloudiness, gloominess
5. concealment, obscurity

   Synonym: obscūritās

6. (figuratively) storm-cloud, the appearance of a coming danger
7. bad luck, misfortune

   Synonyms: plāga, īnfortūnium, calamitās, cāsus, miseria, vulnus, malum, cruciātus

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	nūbēs	nūbēs
genitive	nūbis	nūbium
dative	nūbī	nūbibus
accusative	nūbem	nūbēs nūbīs
ablative	nūbe	nūbibus
vocative	nūbēs	nūbēs

Derived terms

• nūbēcula
• nūbifer
• nūbificus
• nūbifugus
• nūbigena
• nūbiger
• nūbigōsus
• nūbilārium
• nūbilō
• nūbilōsus
• nūbilum
• nūbilus
• nūbivagus

Descendants

• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: nube, nuve, nue, nui
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: nube
  • Italian: nube
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Piedmontese: niu
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: nue, newe, nowe, nuee, nuie, nuue, nuwe, nwe
    • Middle French: nue
      • French: nue
  • Occitan: niu, nieu
  • Old Catalan: nuu
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: nuve, nuven
    • Fala: nubi
    • Galician: nube
    • Portuguese: nuvem (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: nube, ñube
    • Extremaduran: ñubi
    • Mirandese: nubre
  • Old Spanish: nuve, nube, nue, nuue, nuf
    • Ladino: nuve / נוב׳י
    • Spanish: nube

References

• “nubes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “nubes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nubes in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2026), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• "nubes", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “nubes”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Old Spanish

Noun

nubes

1. plural of nube

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnubes/ [ˈnu.β̞es]
• Rhymes: -ubes
• Syllabification: nu‧bes

Noun

nubes f pl

1. plural of nube