imberb

English

Etymology

From French imberbe, from Latin imberbis.

Adjective

imberb (comparative more imberb, superlative most imberb)

1. (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 (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 972:

     Think of the hundreds of imberb boys and impubert girls it had needed to placate the Cretan minotaur!

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French imberbe, from Latin imberbis.

Adjective

imberb m or n (feminine singular imberbă, masculine plural imberbi, feminine and neuter plural imberbe)

1. beardless

Declension

		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