The story
- Latin · borrowed fromnebula“little cloud, mist”
- English todaynebule
From Latin nebula (“little cloud, mist”), though the first sense ("a decorative wavy pattern", as a noun) is perhaps a misunderstanding of the adjective nebulé (“wavy”).
Words from the same roots
Latinnebula all →
nebulanebulize
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.