nube

See also: ñube

Asturian

Alternative forms

• ñube

Etymology

From Latin nūbēs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnube/, [ˈnu.β̞e]

Noun

nube f (plural nubes)

1. cloud

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese nuve (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin nūbes. Cognate with Portuguese nuvem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnuβɪ]

Noun

nube f (plural nubes)

1. cloud
2. (computing) cloud

Related terms

• anubrar
• nuboso

 

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “nuve”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “nube”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “nuve”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “nube”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “nube”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “nube”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Hadza

Etymology

• includes a suffix -e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nube/

Adjective

nube m (masc. plural nubibii, fem. nubiko, fem. plural nubebee)

1. good, nice, beautiful

   Synonym: zzie

Italian

Etymology

From Latin nūbēs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnu.be/
• Rhymes: -ube
• Hyphenation: nù‧be

Noun

nube f (plural nubi)

1. cloud

   Synonym: nuvola

2. haze

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnuː.be/, [ˈnuːbɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnu.be/, [ˈnuːbe]

Noun

nūbe

1. ablative singular of nūbēs

Verb

nūbe

1. second-person singular present active imperative of nūbō

Spanish

The Cafe Central Coffee plaque, Calle Santa Maria, off Plaza de la Constitucion, Malaga

Etymology

Inherited from Latin nūbēs, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)newdʰ- (“to cover”). In Old Spanish, it was written nuve, nué.

The coffee was named by don José Prado Crespo, the founder of Café Central in Malaga. Tired of the difficulty of understanding the orders of customers, he created a plaque on the tiled wall listing 10 types of coffee by their coffee and milk content. Some of the terms used were words that hadn't been asociated with coffee before, like "nube".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnube/ [ˈnu.β̞e]

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• Rhymes: -ube
• Syllabification: nu‧be

Noun

nube f (plural nubes)

1. cloud
2. multitude, or crowd (of people)
3. baby's breath

   Synonym: velo de novia

4. (Spain) marshmallow

   Synonyms: malvavisco, bombón

5. (computing) the cloud
6. (Andalusia, Málaga) A type of coffee made out of roughly 90% milk and 10% coffee
7. cataract
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 298:

     La cerilla de los oídos, echada en los ojos, cura la nube.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Adjective

nube m or f (masculine and feminine plural nubes)

1. (Andalusia, Málaga) A type of coffee made out of roughly 90% milk and 10% coffee

Derived terms

• caer de las nubes
• computación en la nube
• descargar la nube
• nube de azúcar
• nube de electrones
• nube de hongo
• nube de lluvia
• nube de Oort
• nube de verano
• rabo de nube
• techo de nubes

 

Related terms

• nublado
• nublar
• nubosidad
• nuboso
• por las nubes

 

Further reading

• “nube”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10