gibbous
Significado (Inglés)
- Curved or bulged outward.
- Having more than half (but not the whole) of its disc illuminated.
- Humpbacked.
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Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/ˈɡɪbəs/
Etimoloxía (Inglés)
In summary
From Middle English gibbous, from Latin gibbus (“humped, hunched”), probably cognate with cubō (“bend oneself, lie down”), Italian gobba (“humpback”), Ancient Greek κῡφός (kūphós, “humpback, bent”), κύβος (kúbos, “cube, vertebra”), Spanish giboso (“humped”). Also ultimately compare dialectal Norwegian keiv (“slanted, wrong”), German schief (“crooked, slanting”) and Dutch scheef (“crooked, slanting”).
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