different between cloudy vs obnubilate

English

Etymology

From Middle English cloudy (“cloudy, overcast, gloomy, dark", also "hilly, rocky”), from Old English cl?di? (“stony, rocky”), equivalent to cloud +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kla?di/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?a?di/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /?kla??d?/
• Rhymes: -a?di

Adjective

cloudy (comparative cloudier, superlative cloudiest)

1. Covered with or characterised by clouds; overcast.
2. Not transparent or clear.
3. Uncertain; unclear.
4. (computing, informal) Using or relating to cloud computing.

   a cloudy infrastructure

5. (slang, archaic) shady; sketchy; suspicious

Derived terms

• cloudily
• cloudiness

Translations

Middle English

Alternative forms

• cloudi, clowdy, clowdie
• (Early ME) cludi?

Etymology

From Old English cl?di?; equivalent to cloud +? -y.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?klu?di?/

Adjective

cloudy

1. Covered with or characterised by clouds; clouded.
2. Not transparent or clear; murky, gloomy.
3. (rare) Inspiring dread; scary, frightening.
4. (rare) Featuring rocks; rocky, stony.

Related terms

• cloudy

Descendants

• English: cloudy
• Scots: cluddy, cloody

References

• “cl?ud?, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin obn?bil?tus, perfect passive participle of obn?bil? (“cover with clouds or fog”), from ob- +? n?bil? (“be cloudy”), from n?b?s (“cloud”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)newd?- (“to cover”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?nju?b?l?t/

Adjective

obnubilate (comparative more obnubilate, superlative most obnubilate)

1. (obsolete) Covered or darkened as with a cloud; overclouded; obscured.
   • 1575, John Rolland (aut.), W. Gregor (ed.), Ane Treatise callit the Court of Venvs (1884), bk 1, ll. 244–251 (p. 23):

   • 1610, John Healey (tr.), S^t. Augu?tine, of the Citie of God, bk 19, ch. 4, p. 758:

   • 1630, John Taylor, All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-poet, epigram 36, p. 266/1:

   • 1860, George William Bagby (aut., ed.), “Editor’s Table” in The Southern Literary Messenger XXXI (N.S. X), p. 74:

Translations

References

• “†?Obnu·bilate, ppl. a.” in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st edition), volume VII (O, P; 1909), § i (O, ed. James Augustus Henry Murray), page 25/3
• “† obnubilate, adj.” in the Oxford English Dictionary (3rd edition, March 2004)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin obn?bil?, as above.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?nju?b?le?t/

Verb

obnubilate (third-person singular simple present obnubilates, present participle obnubilating, simple past and past participle obnubilated)

1. (obsolete) To obscure, to shadow.
2. To make cloudy.

Derived terms

• obnubilated (adjective)

References

• “Obnubilate, v.” in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (1st edition), volume VII (O, P; 1909), § i (O, ed. James Augustus Henry Murray), page 25/3
• “obnubilate, v.” in the Oxford English Dictionary (3rd edition, March 2004)

Related terms

• obnubilation
• obnubilous

Italian

Verb

obnubilate

1. second-person plural present indicative of obnubilare
2. second-person plural imperative of obnubilare
3. feminine plural of obnubilato