Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1198.nūbēs on page 1198
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nūbēs cloud
nūbēs is a Latin Noun that primarily means cloud.
Definitions for nūbēs
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
cloud
English derivatives:
nubilous
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
A cloud. (b) (pl. or collect. sg., used rhetorically for the sky or air). (c) cloudy weather or conditions.
- 2
(applied to a supernatural cloud concealing a deity, etc., from human eyes). (b) (used to make phantoms); (personified) a cloud made by Zeus in the likeness of Hera to deceive Ixion.
- 3
The mist formed by condensed vapour on a polished surface.
Sentences with nūbēs
Latin to English
Ille potens sui laetusque deget, cui licet in diem dixisse "vixi: cras vel atra nube polum pater occupato vel sole puro; non tamen irritum, quodcumque retro est, efficiet, neque diffinget infectumque reddet, quod fugies semel hora vixit."Compare He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Sire may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine; he will not undo aught that is left behind me, nor change or make as though it had not been aught that the hour, fast as it flies, has once brought."
Solvitque animis miracula rerum eripuitque Iovi fulmen virisque Tonanti et sonitum ventis concessit, nubibus ignem.Compare From error thus the wond'ring minds uncharm'd unsceptred Jove; the Thunderer disarm'd of name and power dispoyl'd him, and assign'd fire to the labouring clouds, noise the wind.
Declension table for nūbēs
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | nūbēs | nūbēs |
| Gen. | nūbis | nūbium / -um |
| Dat. | nūbī | nūbibus |
| Acc. | nūbem | nūbēs / -īs |
| Abl. | nūbe | nūbibus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 93.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1198.
- Word frequencies
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 119-219.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "nūbēs, nūbis (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 16, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/nubes-nubis.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 93.nūbēs, nūbis on page 93
