gibbus

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Derived from gibber (“hump, hunch”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *geybʰ- (“bowed, curved, crooked, skew”); see gibber for more.[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

gibbus (feminine gibba, neuter gibbum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. humped, hunched, gibbous

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative gibbus gibba gibbum gibbī gibbae gibba
genitive gibbī gibbae gibbī gibbōrum gibbārum gibbōrum
dative gibbō gibbae gibbō gibbīs
accusative gibbum gibbam gibbum gibbōs gibbās gibba
ablative gibbō gibbā gibbō gibbīs
vocative gibbe gibba gibbum gibbī gibbae gibba

Descendants

  • → English: gibbous

Noun

gibbus m (genitive gibbī); second declension

  1. a hump, hunch on the back
    Synonym: gibber

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative gibbus gibbī
genitive gibbī gibbōrum
dative gibbō gibbīs
accusative gibbum gibbōs
ablative gibbō gibbīs
vocative gibbe gibbī

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “gibbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “gibbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • gibbus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 260
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