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nube

Meaning

  1. (feminine) cloud
  2. (feminine) multitude, or crowd (of people)
  3. (feminine) baby's breath
  4. (Spain, feminine) marshmallow
  5. (feminine) the cloud
  6. (feminine) cataract

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
nu‧be
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈnube/
Etymology

In summary

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

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