gibbus

Latin

Alternative forms

• gimbus, gilbus, gipus, gybbus, gybpys (adjective)
• gibus, gippus, gilbus, gipus (noun)

Etymology

Derived from gibber (“hump, hunch”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *geybʰ- (“bowed, curved, crooked, skew”); see gibber for more.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡib.bus/, [ˈɡɪbːʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒib.bus/, [ˈd͡ʒibːus]

Adjective

gibbus (feminine gibba, neuter gibbum); first/second-declension adjective

1. humped, hunched, gibbous

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	gibbus	gibba	gibbum		gibbī	gibbae	gibba
genitive	gibbī	gibbae	gibbī		gibbōrum	gibbārum	gibbōrum
dative	gibbō	gibbae	gibbō		gibbīs
accusative	gibbum	gibbam	gibbum		gibbōs	gibbās	gibba
ablative	gibbō	gibbā	gibbō		gibbīs
vocative	gibbe	gibba	gibbum		gibbī	gibbae	gibba

Descendants

• → English: gibbous

Noun

gibbus m (genitive gibbī); second declension

1. a hump, hunch on the back

   Synonym: gibber

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	gibbus	gibbī
genitive	gibbī	gibbōrum
dative	gibbō	gibbīs
accusative	gibbum	gibbōs
ablative	gibbō	gibbīs
vocative	gibbe	gibbī

Derived terms

• gibbōsus

Descendants

• Catalan: gep
• → Middle English: gibbous (learned)
  • English: gibbous
• Italian: gibbo
• Portuguese: geba
• Romanian: gheb
• Sicilian: jimmu
• Spanish: giba

Related terms

• gibber
• gibberōsus

References

• “gibbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “gibbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gibbus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.