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imber in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
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Latin
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Etymology
From Proto-Italic *n̥βris, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥bʰrís (“rain-cloud, rain, cloud”). Cognates include Sanskrit अभ्र (abhrá), meaning "cloud", Old Armenian ամբ (amb), Northern Kurdish ewr and possibly Ancient Greek ἀφρός (aphrós) and ὄμβρος (ómbros).
Pronunciation
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).
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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