different between gibbous vs gibbon

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Latin gibbus (“humped, hunched”), probably cognate with cub? (“bend oneself, lie down”), Italian gobba (“humpback”), Greek ????? (kýfos, “humpback, bent”), ????? (kývos, “cube, vertebra”), Spanish giboso (“humped”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???b?s/
• Rhymes: -?b?s

Adjective

gibbous (comparative more gibbous, superlative most gibbous)

1. Characterized by convexity; protuberant.
   • 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, chapter 22

     In fact, what these gibbous human shapes specially represented was ready money—money insistently ready [...]

2. (astronomy) Phase of moon or planet between first quarter and full or between full and last quarter.
3. Humpbacked.
   • 1697, Dryden, Aeneid, book 8

     A pointed flinty rock, all bare and black,

     Grew gibbous from behind the mountain's back;

Antonyms

• crescent

Derived terms

• gibbous moon

Translations

English

Etymology

Reborrowing from French gibbon, folk etymology (compare English Gibbon) ultimately from an Aslian language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???b?n/
• Rhymes: -?b?n

Noun

gibbon (plural gibbons)

1. A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which it uses to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.
   • 1950, Evelyn Waugh, Helena.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• gibbon at OneLook Dictionary Search
• gibbon in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• gibbon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• gobbin

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French gibbon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.b?n/
• Hyphenation: gib?bon

Noun

gibbon m (plural gibbons)

1. gibbon, primate of the family Hylobatidae

French

Etymology

Brought to Europe from French India by Joseph François Dupleix, probably from an English folk etymology (compare English Gibbon) with an Aslian root.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i.b??/

Noun

gibbon m (plural gibbons)

1. Gibbon

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “gibbon”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• “gibbon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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