imber

See also: Imber

Latin

Alternative forms

• ymber

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *nebʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-rós

Proto-Indo-European *n̥bʰrís

Proto-Italic *n̥βris

Latin imber

Inherited from Proto-Italic *n̥βris, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥bʰrís. Cognates include Sanskrit अभ्र (abhrá), meaning "cloud", Old Armenian ամբ (amb), Northern Kurdish ewr and possibly Ancient Greek ἀφρός (aphrós) and ὄμβρος (ómbros).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪm.bɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈim.ber]

Noun

imber m (genitive imbris); third declension

1. rain

   Synonym: pluvia

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico VII.24:

     Frigore et assiduis imbribus tardarentur

     Retarded by the cold and by the continuous rains

2. a storm

   Synonyms: procella, turbō, hiems, tempestās

3. (poetic) a stormcloud

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem, ablative singular in -e or occasionally -ī).

	singular	plural
nominative	imber	imbrēs
genitive	imbris	imbrium
dative	imbrī	imbribus
accusative	imbrem	imbrēs imbrīs
ablative	imbre imbrī	imbribus
vocative	imber	imbrēs

Synonyms

• pluvia

Derived terms

• imbrex
• imbricus
• imbridus
• imbrifer

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^[1], 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
    

Further reading

• Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938), “imber”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume I, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, pages 680-681