The story
- Latin · learned borrowing fromnimbus“dark cloud”
- English todaynimbus
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.
Words from the same roots
Latinnimbus all →
nimb
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.