Learned borrowing from Latin nimbus ( “ dark cloud ” ) . Doublet of nimb .
Sense 2 (“grey rain cloud”) was coined by the British chemist and amateur meteorologist Luke Howard (1772–1864): see the 1803 quotation.
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Learned borrowing from Latin nimbus . Doublet of nimbe .
Learned borrowing from Latin nimbus .
Learned borrowing from Latin nimbus .
Seemingly from Proto-Indo-European * nébʰos ( “ cloud ” ) with an *-n- infix, but the formal details are disputed . Possibly contaminated either by a zero-grade variant * imbus or by the related word imber ( “ rain ” ) , if not borrowed from another Indo-European language. Cognates include Latin nebula , Proto-Slavic * nebo ( “ heaven, sky ” ) , Sanskrit नभस् ( nábhas , “ sky ” ) and Ancient Greek νέφος ( néphos , “ cloud ” ) .
Learned borrowing from Latin nimbus , from Proto-Indo-European * nébʰos . Doublet of niebo .
Borrowed from French nimbus .
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