gibber

English

Etymology 1

Uncertain; usually regarded as a back-formation from gibberish (see gibberish for more).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɪbə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪbə(ɹ)

Noun

gibber (countable and uncountable, plural gibbers)

1. Gibberish, unintelligible speech.

Verb

gibber (third-person singular simple present gibbers, present participle gibbering, simple past and past participle gibbered)

1. To jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:chatter

Derived terms

• gibberish
• gibbersome

Translations

to speak unintelligibly

Bulgarian: ломотя (bg) (lomotja) Georgian: ლუღლუღი (luɣluɣi), ყბედობა (q̇bedoba) Greek: Ancient: φλυαρέω (phluaréō) Latin: blaterō Maori: kunanu

Etymology 2

From Dharug giba.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪbə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

Noun

gibber (plural gibbers)

1. (Australia) A stone or rock, of chalcedony or similar mineral, found strewn over arid regions of inland Australia; a gibber stone. [from late 19th c.]
2. (Australia, colloquial) Any small rock or stone, especially one used for throwing.
   • 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 90:

     “Well, all I can say is that if yer don't take yer dial outer the road I'll bloomin' well take an' bounce a gibber off yer crust.”

3. (Australia, obsolete) A large boulder or rocky outcrop; also, an overhanging rock formation. [from early 19th c.]

Derived terms

• gibberbird
• gibber plain
• gibber stone

See also

• reg, desert pavement

Etymology 3

From gib +‎ -er.

Noun

gibber (plural gibbers)

1. A balky horse.
   • 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse

     A hasty and passionate breaker will often make a really goodtempered young horse an inveterate gibber

References

“gibber”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *gīfri- (“hump”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *geybʰ- (“bowed, curved, crooked, skew”), and cognate with Lithuanian geĩbti (“to decline, become weak”), Norwegian Bokmål keive (“the left hand”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈɡib.ber/, [ˈɡɪbːɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒib.ber/, [ˈd͡ʒibːer]

Adjective

gibber (feminine gibbera, neuter gibberum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. humpbacked, hunchbacked

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	gibber	gibbera	gibberum		gibberī	gibberae	gibbera
genitive	gibberī	gibberae	gibberī		gibberōrum	gibberārum	gibberōrum
dative	gibberō	gibberae	gibberō		gibberīs
accusative	gibberum	gibberam	gibberum		gibberōs	gibberās	gibbera
ablative	gibberō	gibberā	gibberō		gibberīs
vocative	gibber	gibbera	gibberum		gibberī	gibberae	gibbera

Noun

gibber m (genitive gibberis); third declension

1. a hump, hunch on the back

Declension

Third-declension noun

	singular	plural
nominative	gibber	gibberēs
genitive	gibberis	gibberum
dative	gibberī	gibberibus
accusative	gibberem	gibberēs
ablative	gibbere	gibberibus
vocative	gibber	gibberēs

Synonyms

• (hump, hunch): gibbus

Derived terms

• gibberōsus

Related terms

• gibbus

References

• “gibber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gibber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 260