cloud Copy link Outline 1. nūbēs, is, f. (the most comprehensive term)2. nūbĭla, orum (only in pl.; mostly poet.)3. nimbus (a dark c. of rain or storm) • cloud: 1. nūbēs, is, f. (the most comprehensive term): summer c.s, aestivae n., Virg.: a dark gloomy c., atra n., Hor.: c.s gather, n. globantur, Plin. Meton.: a c. of dust, n. pulveris, Liv.: c.s of locusts, n. locustarum, Liv. Fig.: banish the c. from your brow, deme supercilio n., Hor.: to grasp at c.s and unsubstantial things, nubes et inania captare, Hor. Dimin. nūbēcŭla, a small c. (both lit. and fig.): Cic.: Plin. 2. nūbĭla, orum (only in pl.; mostly poet.): Jove cleaving the c.s with gleaming fire, Diespiter igni corusco n. dividens, Hor.: to scatter the c.s, n. disjicere, Quint. 3. nimbus (a dark c. of rain or storm): c.s obscured the day, involvere diem n., Virg.: a dense c., densus n., Liv. Meton.: a c. of yellow sand, fulvus n. arenae, Virg.: a c. of foot-soldiers, n. peditum, Virg.: a c. of missiles, n. telorum, Lucan. Fig.: I am glad that this c. (or storm) has quickly passed by, hunc quidem n. cito transisse laetor, Cic. Phr.: to throw a c. over anything (of that which renders gloomy): tenebras, caliginem obducere: v. gloom.
cloud (v.) Copy link • cloud (v.): chiefly in pass. Phr.: the sky is suddenly c.'d over, eripiunt subito nubes coelum, Virg.; tenebrae, nubes, se coelo obducunt: cf. Plin. 11, 37, 54; (or, coelum nubibus obducitur, for obduco admits both constructions); removent subeuntia nubila coelum, Ov. F. 2, 493; also simply nūbĭlat (impers.): Varr. Nūbesco, to be c.'d over, become cloudy, is of doubtful authority; and obnubilo, to becloud, appears to occur only in fig. sense (Gell.).
CLOUD Copy link • CLOUD 1. nubes (also, IMPROP., e.g., of dust, nubes pulveris; of locusts, nubes locustarum). To fall from the clouds, de caelo delabi; ex astris delabi or decidere. The sky was covered with thick (dark, dense) clouds, caelum erat grave sordidis nubibus: to see as through a cloud, cernere quasi per caliginem: to form (or form themselves into) a cloud, in nubem cogi. PROV., he seemed (to himself) to have fallen from the clouds, *in alium quendam orbem delatus sibi videbatur. FIG., to throw a cloud over anything, caliginem alicui rei (e.g., alicujus animo) offundere. In precious stones, etc., nubes: vena. Great multitude (magna) copia: multitudo. OBS., nubes must not be used unless the image of a cloud is preserved; as in nubes locustarum. since they darken the air like a cloud; of birds, volucrum; of infantry and cavalry, equitum peditumque. 2. v, nubibus obducere. The sky is clouded over, caelum nubibus obducitur; nubilatur: nubilare coepit. FIG., anybody’s brow is clouded over, oculi alicujus tristitiae quuddam nubilum ducunt (Quint., 11, 3, 75). A clouded brow, frons contracta (wrinkled forehead): vultus tristis: frons nubila (sad, serious look; the latter Martialis, 2, 11.)