different between nebular vs nebula

English

Adjective

nebular (comparative more nebular, superlative most nebular)

1. (astronomy) Of or pertaining to a nebula.
2. Cloudy; diffuse.

Derived terms

• supernebular

Related terms

• nebulosity
• nebulous
• nebula

Anagrams

• unabler

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nebula (“little cloud, mist”). Akin to Ancient Greek ?????? (nephél?, “cloud”), German Nebel (“mist, nebula”), Old Norse nifl, Polish niebo (“sky, heaven”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: neb'j?-l?, IPA^(key): /?n?bj?l?/

Noun

nebula (plural nebulae or nebulas)

1. (astronomy) A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes).
2. (archaic, medicine) A white spot or slight opacity of the cornea.
3. (obsolete, medicine) A cloudy appearance in the urine

Derived terms

Related terms

• nebulosity
• nebulous
• nebular

Translations

See also

• plerion
• nova remnant
• supernova remnant
• Herbig-Haro object
• Bok globule
• interstellar cloud
• intergalactic cloud
• high velocity cloud

Anagrams

• Buelna, Nabeul, unable, unbale

Interlingua

Noun

nebula (plural nebulas)

1. fog, mist, haze
2. (pathology) nebula

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nebula. Doublet of nebbia, which was inherited.

Noun

nebula f (plural nebule)

1. (archaic) fog, mist; cloud
2. nebula

Related terms

• nebbia
• nebulizzare
• nebulosa

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *ne?el?, from Proto-Indo-European *néb?os (“cloud”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (néphos), ?????? (nephél?), Old High German nebul, Sanskrit ???? (nábhas), Old Church Slavonic ???? (nebo).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ne.bu.la/, [?n?b???ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ne.bu.la/, [?n??bul?]

Noun

nebula f (genitive nebulae); first declension

1. fog
2. cloud
3. vapor
4. vocative singular of nebula

Declension

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

• c?l?g?

Derived terms

• nebul?sus

Descendants

Noun

nebul? f

1. ablative singular of nebula

References

• nebula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nebula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• nebula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• nebula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette