gibber

== English == === Etymology 1 === Uncertain; usually regarded as a back-formation from gibberish (see gibberish for more). ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒɪbə(ɹ)/ Rhymes: -ɪbə(ɹ) ==== Noun ==== gibber (countable and uncountable, plural gibbers) Gibberish, unintelligible speech. ==== Verb ==== gibber (third-person singular simple present gibbers, present participle gibbering, simple past and past participle gibbered) To jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently. ===== Synonyms ===== See also Thesaurus:chatter ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Dharug giba. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈɡɪbə/ ==== Noun ==== gibber (plural gibbers) (Australia) A stone or rock, of chalcedony or similar mineral, found strewn over arid regions of inland Australia; a gibber stone. [from late 19th c.] (Australia, colloquial) Any small rock or stone, especially one used for throwing. (Australia, obsolete) A large boulder or rocky outcrop; also, an overhanging rock formation. [from early 19th c.] ===== Derived terms ===== gibberbird gibber plain gibber stone ===== See also ===== reg, desert pavement === Etymology 3 === From gib +‎ -er. ==== Noun ==== gibber (plural gibbers) A balky horse. 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse A hasty and passionate breaker will often make a really goodtempered young horse an inveterate gibber === References === “gibber”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. == Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *gīfri- (“hump”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *geybʰ- (“bowed, curved, crooked, skew”), and cognate with Lithuanian gei̇̃bti (“to decline, become weak”), Norwegian Bokmål keive (“the left hand”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɡɪb.bɛr] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈd͡ʒib.ber] === Adjective === gibber (feminine gibbera, neuter gibberum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er) humpbacked, hunchbacked ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er). === Noun === gibber m (genitive gibberis); third declension a hump, hunch on the back Synonym: gibbus ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== gibberōsus === Related terms === gibbus === References === “gibber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “gibber”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.