imberb
English
Etymology
From French imberbe, from Latin imberbis.
Adjective
imberb (comparative more imberb, superlative most imberb)
- (rare) Beardless.
- 1923, Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay:
- He was a very young man with pale hair to which heavy oiling had given a curious greyish colour, and a face of such childish contour and so imberb that he looked like a little boy playing at grown-ups.
- 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 972:
- Think of the hundreds of imberb boys and impubert girls it had needed to placate the Cretan minotaur!
- 1923, Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay:
Romanian
Etymology
From French imberbe, from Latin imberbis.
Adjective
imberb m or n (feminine singular imberbă, masculine plural imberbi, feminine and neuter plural imberbe)
- beardless
Declension
Declension of imberb
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative/ accusative | indefinite | imberb | imberbă | imberbi | imberbe | ||
| definite | imberbul | imberba | imberbii | imberbele | |||
| genitive/ dative | indefinite | imberb | imberbe | imberbi | imberbe | ||
| definite | imberbului | imberbei | imberbilor | imberbelor | |||