imber

See also: Imber

Latin

Alternative forms

ymber

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *emβris, 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

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈim.ber/, [ˈɪmbɛr]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈim.ber/, [ˈimber]

Noun

imber m (genitive imbris); third declension

rain
- Caesar, de Bello Gallico VII, 24:
  Frigore et assiduis imbribus tardarentur
  Retarded by the cold and by the continuous rains
a storm
(poetic) a stormcloud

Declension

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

Case	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, 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