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 ewr and possibly Ancient Greek ἀφρός (aphrós) and ὄμβρος (ómbros).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈim.ber/, [ˈɪm.bɛr]

Noun

imber m (genitive imbris); third declension

  1. rain
  2. a storm
  3. (poetic) a stormcloud

Inflection

Third declension i-stem.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative imber imbrēs
Genitive imbris imbrium
Dative imbrī imbribus
Accusative imbrem imbrēs
Ablative imbre imbribus
Vocative imber imbrēs

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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, 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
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