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virga
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin virga (“rod”). Doublet of verge.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: vûr?g?, IPA(key): /?v????/
Noun
virga (countable and uncountable, plural virgas or virgae)
- (music) A type of note used in plainsong notation, having a tail and representing a single tone.
- (meteorology, countable) A streak of rain or snow that is dissipated in falling and does not reach the ground, commonly appearing descending from a cloud layer.
- (measurement, countable) A unit of length: a rod, pole or perch (5½ yards); or a unit of area: a square rod, pole or perch.
Synonyms
- (musical note): virgula
Translations
See also
- virga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- “virga” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
Anagrams
- gravi-
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /?vi?.??/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?bir.??/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?vi?.?a/
Noun
virga f (plural virgues)
- (meteorology) virga
Esperanto
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin virg? +? -a.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?vir?a/
- Hyphenation: vir?ga
- Rhymes: -ir?a
Adjective
virga (accusative singular virgan, plural virgaj, accusative plural virgajn)
- virgin, virginal
Derived terms
Estonian
Adjective
virga
- genitive singular of virk
Interlingua
Etymology
Italian verga, French verge, Spanish verga, and Portuguese virga.
Noun
virga (plural virgas)
- rod
- (nautical) yard
- (vulgar) dick
Istriot
Etymology
From Latin virga.
Noun
virga f
- whip
- strap
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *wizg?, probably from Proto-Indo-European *wisgeh? (“flexible rod or stick”). Possibly cognate with Proto-Germanic *wiskaz (“bundle of hay or straw, wisp”). From Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“to produce, procreate”), or alternatively from a stem *wey?s- (see *wey?-). Regardless, it is probably a doublet of viscum.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?u?ir.?a/, [?u??r?ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?vir.?a/, [?vir??]
Noun
virga f (genitive virgae); first declension
- twig, young shoot
- rod, switch for flogging.
- staff, walking stick
- wand (magical)
- (figuratively) penis, cervix
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- virga in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- virga in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- virga in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- virga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- virga in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bi??a/, [?bi?.??a]
Adjective
virga f sg
- feminine singular of virgo
virga From the web:
cloud
English
Etymology
From Middle English cloud, cloude, clod, clud, clude, from Old English cl?d (“mass of stone, rock, boulder, hill”), from Proto-Germanic *kl?taz, *klutaz (“lump, mass, conglomeration”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, clench”).
Cognate with Scots clood, clud (“cloud”), Dutch kluit (“lump, mass, clod”), German Low German Kluut, Kluute (“lump, mass, ball”), German Kloß (“lump, ball, dumpling”), Danish klode (“sphere, orb, planet”), Swedish klot (“sphere, orb, ball, globe”), Icelandic klót (“knob on a sword's hilt”). Related to English clod, clot, clump, club. Largely displaced native Middle English wolken, wolkne from Old English wolcen (whence Modern English welkin), the commonest Germanic word (compare Dutch wolk, German Wolke).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: kloud, IPA(key): /kla?d/
- Rhymes: -a?d
Noun
cloud (plural clouds)
- (obsolete) A rock; boulder; a hill.
- A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
- So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
- Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
- Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
- (figuratively) Anything unsubstantial.
- A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
- A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
- so great a cloud of witnesses
- An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
- (computing, with "the") The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
- (figuratively) A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
- (slang) Crystal methamphetamine.
- A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:cloud.
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:cloud
Derived terms
Translations
See cloud/translations § Noun.
See also
- Appendix:English collective nouns
Verb
cloud (third-person singular simple present clouds, present participle clouding, simple past and past participle clouded)
- (intransitive) To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
- (transitive) To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
- (transitive) To make obscure.
- (transitive) To make less acute or perceptive.
- (transitive) To make gloomy or sullen.
- (transitive) To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
- (transitive) To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
- (intransitive) To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
Translations
Further reading
- cloud on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- clouds on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
- could, culdo-
French
Pronunciation
Noun
cloud m (uncountable)
- (computing, Anglicism, with le) the cloud.
Synonyms
- le nuage
See also
- informatique en nuage
- infonuagique
Middle English
Alternative forms
- clowd, cloude, clowde, clud, clude
Etymology
From Old English cl?d, from Proto-West Germanic *kl?t, from Proto-Germanic *kl?taz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klu?d/
Noun
cloud (plural cloudes)
- A small elevation; a hill.
- A clod, lump, or boulder.
- A cloud (mass of water vapour) or similar.
- The sky (that which is above the ground).
- That which obscures, dims, or clouds.
Related terms
- cloudy
Descendants
- English: cloud
- Scots: clud, clood
References
- “cl?ud, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old Irish
Etymology
From clo- +? -ud.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?kl?o.uð/
Noun
cloüd m (genitive cloita)
- verbal noun of cloïd: subduing
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 56b16
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 56b16
Descendants
- Middle Irish: clód
- Irish: cló
- Scottish Gaelic: clòthadh
Inflection
Mutation
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “clód”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Spanish
Noun
cloud m (plural clouds)
- (computing) cloud
cloud From the web:
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- what clouds produce rain
- what clouds are made of ice crystals
- what clouds have the greatest turbulence
- what cloud indicates the top of the troposphere
- what clouds bring thunderstorms
- what cloud is fog
- what clouds cause thunderstorms
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