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Borrowed from Latin nebula (“little cloud, mist”). Akin to Ancient Greek νεφέλη (nephélē, “cloud”), German Nebel (“mist, nebula”), Old Norse nifl, Polish niebo (“sky, heaven”), Russian не́бо (nébo, “sky”).

• enPR: neb'jə-lə, IPA^(key): /ˈnɛbjʊlə/

nebula (plural nebulae or nebulas or (obsolete) nebulæ)

1. (astronomy) A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes).

   Hyponyms: emission nebula, pulsar wind nebula, supernova remnant

   • 2012, Chinle Miller, In Mesozoic Lands: The Mesozoic Geology of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, Kindle edition:

     Approximately 5 billion years ago, our solar nebula was formed as gravitational forces pulled interstellar gas and dust into a swirling mass around out newly formed sun.

2. (archaic, medicine) A white spot or slight opacity of the cornea.
3. (obsolete, medicine) A cloudy appearance in the urine.

• nebulosity
• nebulous
• nebular

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

• Buelna, Nabeul, unable, unbale

Latin nebula

• IPA^(key): /ˈnebulɑ/, [ˈne̞bulɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ebulɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): ne‧bu‧la

nebula

1. Synonym of tähtisumu

nebula (plural nebulas)

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

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

nebula f (plural nebule)

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

• nebbia
• nebulizzare
• nebulosa

From Proto-Italic *neβelā, from Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (“cloud”). Cognate with Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos), νεφέλη (nephélē), Old High German nebul, Sanskrit नभस् (nábhas), Old Church Slavonic небо (nebo).^[1] Note that despite similar pronunciation and semantics, not related to nūbēs (“cloud”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈne.bu.la/, [ˈnɛbʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈne.bu.la/, [ˈnɛːbulä]

nebula f (genitive nebulae); first declension

1. fog
2. cloud
3. vapor
4. nebula

First-declension noun.

• cālīgō

• nebulōsus

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• nebula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.