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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈɡɪbəs/, /ˈd͡ʒɪbəs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gibbous.wav Forms: more gibbous [comparative], most gibbous [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɪbəs Etymology: From Middle English gibbous, from Latin gibbus (“humped, hunched”), probably cognate with cubō (“bend oneself, lie down”), Italian gobba (“humpback”), Ancient Greek κῡφός (kūphós, “humpback, bent”), κύβος (kúbos, “cube, vertebra”), Spanish giboso (“humped”). Also ultimately compare dialectal Norwegian keiv (“slanted, wrong”), German schief (“crooked, slanting”) and Dutch scheef (“crooked, slanting”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|gibbous}} Middle English gibbous, {{der|en|la|gibbus|t=humped, hunched}} Latin gibbus (“humped, hunched”), {{cog|it|gobba|t=humpback}} Italian gobba (“humpback”), {{cog|grc|κῡφός|t=humpback, bent}} Ancient Greek κῡφός (kūphós, “humpback, bent”), {{cog|es|giboso|t=humped}} Spanish giboso (“humped”), {{cog|no|keiv||slanted, wrong}} Norwegian keiv (“slanted, wrong”), {{cog|de|schief||crooked, slanting}} German schief (“crooked, slanting”), {{cog|nl|scheef||crooked, slanting}} Dutch scheef (“crooked, slanting”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} gibbous (comparative more gibbous, superlative most gibbous)
  1. Curved or bulged outward. Translations (characterized by convexity; protuberant): издут (izdut) (Bulgarian), изпъкнал (izpǎknal) (Bulgarian), kupera (Finnish), gibbeux [masculine] (French), gibbeuse [feminine] (French), ამოზნექილი (amoznekili) (Georgian), ამობურცული (amoburculi) (Georgian), გამობურცული (gamoburculi) (Georgian), gewölbt (German), αμφίκυρτος (amfíkyrtos) (Greek), dudorodó (Hungarian), kidudorodó (Hungarian), duzzadó (Hungarian), duzzadt (Hungarian), domború (Hungarian), hoferede (Old English), ġehofored (Old English), giboso (Portuguese), выпуклый (vypuklyj) (Russian), выступающий (vystupajuščij) (Russian), gibado (Spanish)
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  2. (astronomy, of a celestial body) Having more than half (but not the whole) of its disc illuminated. Categories (topical): Astronomy
    Sense id: en-gibbous-en-adj-dDnHh-zE Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
  3. Humpbacked.
    Sense id: en-gibbous-en-adj--SgkigNy
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: gibbous moon, waning gibbous Translations (phase of moon or planet): gibós (Catalan), kupera (Finnish), gibbeux [masculine] (French), gibbeuse [feminine] (French), dreiviertel (German), αμφίκυρτος (amfíkyrtos) (Greek), dagadó (Hungarian), telő (Hungarian), gibboso (Italian), nitʼą́ą́ hanádzá (Navajo), giboso (Portuguese), освещённый более, чем на половину (osveščónnyj boleje, čem na polovinu) (Russian), crotach (Scottish Gaelic), giboso (Spanish), oval (Swedish)
Disambiguation of 'phase of moon or planet': 0 100 0
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      "word": "waning gibbous"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "enm",
        "3": "gibbous"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English gibbous",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "gibbus",
        "t": "humped, hunched"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin gibbus (“humped, hunched”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "gobba",
        "t": "humpback"
      },
      "expansion": "Italian gobba (“humpback”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "κῡφός",
        "t": "humpback, bent"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "giboso",
        "t": "humped"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish giboso (“humped”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "no",
        "2": "keiv",
        "3": "",
        "4": "slanted, wrong"
      },
      "expansion": "Norwegian keiv (“slanted, wrong”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "schief",
        "3": "",
        "4": "crooked, slanting"
      },
      "expansion": "German schief (“crooked, slanting”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "scheef",
        "3": "",
        "4": "crooked, slanting"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch scheef (“crooked, slanting”)",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English gibbous, from Latin gibbus (“humped, hunched”), probably cognate with cubō (“bend oneself, lie down”), Italian gobba (“humpback”), Ancient Greek κῡφός (kūphós, “humpback, bent”), κύβος (kúbos, “cube, vertebra”), Spanish giboso (“humped”). Also ultimately compare dialectal Norwegian keiv (“slanted, wrong”), German schief (“crooked, slanting”) and Dutch scheef (“crooked, slanting”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more gibbous",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most gibbous",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "gibbous (comparative more gibbous, superlative most gibbous)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1886 May, Thomas Hardy, “chapter 22”, in The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "In fact, what these gibbous human shapes specially represented was ready money—money insistently ready [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Curved or bulged outward."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bulge",
          "bulge"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Astronomy"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: crescent"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Dava Sobel, Longitude, Herper Perennial, published 2011, →ISBN, page 89:",
          "text": "The moving moon, full, gibbous, or crescent-shaped, shone at last for the navigators of the eighteenth century like a luminous hand on the clock of heaven.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books, published 2022, page 252:",
          "text": "On December 7, 1972, the Apollo 17 astronauts took a photograph of a gibbous Earth at a distance of eighteen thousand miles from its surface.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having more than half (but not the whole) of its disc illuminated."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "astronomy",
          "astronomy"
        ],
        [
          "disc",
          "disc"
        ],
        [
          "illuminate",
          "illuminate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(astronomy, of a celestial body) Having more than half (but not the whole) of its disc illuminated."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a celestial body"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "astronomy",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1697, Virgil, “The Eighth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "A pointed flinty rock, all bare and black,\nGrew gibbous from behind the mountain's back;",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Humpbacked."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Humpbacked",
          "humpback"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɡɪbəs/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒɪbəs/"
    },
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪbəs"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "izdut",
      "sense": "characterized by convexity; protuberant",
      "word": "издут"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "izpǎknal",
      "sense": "characterized by convexity; protuberant",
      "word": "изпъкнал"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "characterized by convexity; protuberant",
      "word": "kupera"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "characterized by convexity; protuberant",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gibbeux"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "characterized by convexity; protuberant",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gibbeuse"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "amoznekili",
      "sense": "characterized by convexity; protuberant",
      "word": "ამოზნექილი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "amoburculi",
      "sense": "characterized by convexity; protuberant",
      "word": "ამობურცული"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "gamoburculi",
      "sense": "characterized by convexity; protuberant",
      "word": "გამობურცული"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "characterized by convexity; protuberant",
      "word": "gewölbt"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "amfíkyrtos",
      "sense": "characterized by convexity; protuberant",
      "word": "αμφίκυρτος"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "characterized by convexity; protuberant",
      "word": "dudorodó"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "characterized by convexity; protuberant",
      "word": "kidudorodó"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "characterized by convexity; protuberant",
      "word": "duzzadó"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "characterized by convexity; protuberant",
      "word": "duzzadt"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "characterized by convexity; protuberant",
      "word": "domború"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "characterized by convexity; protuberant",
      "word": "hoferede"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "characterized by convexity; protuberant",
      "word": "ġehofored"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "characterized by convexity; protuberant",
      "word": "giboso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vypuklyj",
      "sense": "characterized by convexity; protuberant",
      "word": "выпуклый"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "vystupajuščij",
      "sense": "characterized by convexity; protuberant",
      "word": "выступающий"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "characterized by convexity; protuberant",
      "word": "gibado"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "phase of moon or planet",
      "word": "gibós"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "phase of moon or planet",
      "word": "kupera"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "phase of moon or planet",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gibbeux"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "phase of moon or planet",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gibbeuse"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "phase of moon or planet",
      "word": "dreiviertel"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "amfíkyrtos",
      "sense": "phase of moon or planet",
      "word": "αμφίκυρτος"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "phase of moon or planet",
      "word": "dagadó"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "phase of moon or planet",
      "word": "telő"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "phase of moon or planet",
      "word": "gibboso"
    },
    {
      "code": "nv",
      "lang": "Navajo",
      "sense": "phase of moon or planet",
      "word": "nitʼą́ą́ hanádzá"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "phase of moon or planet",
      "word": "giboso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "osveščónnyj boleje, čem na polovinu",
      "sense": "phase of moon or planet",
      "word": "освещённый более, чем на половину"
    },
    {
      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "phase of moon or planet",
      "word": "crotach"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "phase of moon or planet",
      "word": "giboso"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "phase of moon or planet",
      "word": "oval"
    }
  ],
  "word": "gibbous"
}

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