nimbus

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈnɪmbəs/    美 /ˈnɪmbəs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A circle of light; a halo.
  2. A grey rain cloud.
    — [pages 99–100] Cumulo-cirro-stratus vel Nimbus. […] The rain cloud. A cloud or system of clouds from which rain is falling. It is a horizontal sheet, above which the cirrus spreads, while the cumulus enters it laterally and from beneath. […] [page 107] The nimbus, although in itself one of the least beautiful clouds, is yet now and then superbly decorated with its attendant the rainbow; which can only be seen in perfection when backed by the widely extended uniform gloom of this modification.

词形变化

nimbi plural nimbuses plural

词汇关系

衍生词
nimbused nimbuslike
相关词
nimbed

词源

Learned borrowing from Latin nimbus (“dark cloud”). Doublet of nimb.
Sense 2 (“grey rain cloud”) was coined by the British chemist and amateur meteorologist Luke Howard (1772–1864): see the 1803 quotation.
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