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): [ˈɡɪb.bʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈd͡ʒib.bus] === Adjective === gibbus (feminine gibba, neuter gibbum); first/second-declension adjective humped, hunched, gibbous ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== → English: gibbous === Noun === gibbus m (genitive gibbī); second declension a hump, hunch on the back Synonym: gibber ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== gibbōsus ==== Descendants ==== === 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.