Etymograph

English

imbrex

Imbrex comes from Latin imbrex ‘imbrex, pantile: a curved roof tile used in an…’, from imber ‘rain’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *nebʰ- ‘to become damp, cloudy’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*nebʰ-‘to become damp, cloudy’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*n̥bʰrís‘rain-cloud, with semantic narrowing to rain, cloud’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*n̥βris‘rain’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimber‘rain’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEimbrex‘imbrex, pantile: a curved roof tile used in an overlapping formation with the larger’
  6. Englishtodaysame form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*nebʰ-‘to become damp, cloudy’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*n̥bʰrís‘rain-cloud, with semantic narrowing to rain, cloud’reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*n̥βris‘rain’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimber‘rain’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEimbrex‘imbrex, pantile: a curved roof tile used in an overlapping formation with the larger’
  6. Englishtodaysame form

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *nebʰ- ‘to become damp, cloudy’

nebula, aphrodite, nebulous, nimbus, 20 more

Today it means

noun A roof tile common in Ancient Greek and Roman architecture, used in an overlapping formation with the tegula.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *nebʰ- / imbrex

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