nebula
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin nebula (“little cloud, mist”). Akin to Ancient Greek νεφέλη (nephélē, “cloud”), German Nebel (“mist, nebula”), Old Norse nifl, Polish niebo (“sky, heaven”), Russian не́бо (nébo, “sky”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nebula (plural nebulae or nebulas or (obsolete) nebulæ)
- (astronomy) A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes).
- Hyponyms: emission nebula, pulsar wind nebula, supernova remnant
- 2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:
- Approximately 5 billion years ago, our solar nebula was formed as gravitational forces pulled interstellar gas and dust into a swirling mass around out newly formed sun.
- (archaic, medicine) A white spot or slight opacity of the cornea.
- (obsolete, medicine) A cloudy appearance in the urine.
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See also
[edit]- plerion
- nova remnant
- supernova remnant
- Herbig-Haro object
- Bok globule
- interstellar cloud
- intergalactic cloud
- high velocity cloud
Anagrams
[edit]Finnish
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[edit]Noun
[edit]nebula
- Synonym of tähtisumu
Declension
[edit]Inflection of nebula (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | nebula | nebulat | |
genitive | nebulan | nebuloiden nebuloitten | |
partitive | nebulaa | nebuloita | |
illative | nebulaan | nebuloihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | nebula | nebulat | |
accusative | nom. | nebula | nebulat |
gen. | nebulan | ||
genitive | nebulan | nebuloiden nebuloitten nebulain rare | |
partitive | nebulaa | nebuloita | |
inessive | nebulassa | nebuloissa | |
elative | nebulasta | nebuloista | |
illative | nebulaan | nebuloihin | |
adessive | nebulalla | nebuloilla | |
ablative | nebulalta | nebuloilta | |
allative | nebulalle | nebuloille | |
essive | nebulana | nebuloina | |
translative | nebulaksi | nebuloiksi | |
abessive | nebulatta | nebuloitta | |
instructive | — | nebuloin | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Interlingua
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[edit]nebula (plural nebulas)
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin nebula. Doublet of nebbia, which was inherited.
Noun
[edit]nebula f (plural nebule)
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[edit]Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *neβelā, from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (“cloud”). Cognate with Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos), νεφέλη (nephélē), Old High German nebul, Sanskrit नभस् (nábhas), Old Church Slavonic небо (nebo).[1] Note that despite similar pronunciation and semantics, not related to nūbēs (“cloud”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈne.bu.la/, [ˈnɛbʊɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈne.bu.la/, [ˈnɛːbulä]
Noun
[edit]nebula f (genitive nebulae); first declension
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | nebula | nebulae |
Genitive | nebulae | nebulārum |
Dative | nebulae | nebulīs |
Accusative | nebulam | nebulās |
Ablative | nebulā | nebulīs |
Vocative | nebula | nebulae |
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[edit]References
[edit]- “nebula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “nebula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- nebula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- nebula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “nebula”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 404
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *nebʰ-
- English terms borrowed from Latin
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- English 3-syllable words
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- Finnish terms derived from Latin
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ebulɑ
- Rhymes:Finnish/ebulɑ/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish kulkija-type nominals
- Interlingua lemmas
- Interlingua nouns
- ia:Pathology
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- la:Weather