nubifer Latin · revision 9747

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Ovid|origins=la nūbēs, la ferō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈnuː.bɪ.fɛr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈnuː.bi.fer]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''nūbifer''' (feminine nūbifera, neuter nūbiferum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|nūbēs|-fer|t1=cloud|t2=bearing]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨nūbēs⟩ to [[itc-pro|*(s)nouþ-(i-)]], from [[ine-pro|*(s)ne/oudʰ-]], with [[cy|nudd]] as its only direct cognate.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Its earliest source is Ovid's ''Metamorphoses'', of the cloud-capped Apennines.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010) Köbler dates Ovid 43 BC–18 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Poetic, it meant of mountains cloud-capped, as in Ovid and Valerius Flaccus, and of winds or seasons, bringing clouds, as in Ovid, Lucan and Silius.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ British Medieval Latin used it for bringing clouds, as of the east wind in Alexander Neckam.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 25–101 AD – Silius Italicus uses it.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # ''(of mountains)'' Cloud-capped.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(of winds, seasons)'' Bringing [[m|en|cloud|alt=clouds]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[nūbēs]]

+ * [[nūbigena]]

+ * [[ferō]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}