Gibbous

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɡɪbÉ™s/
• Rhymes: -ɪbÉ™s

Origin

From Middle English, from Latin gibbus ("humped, hunched"), probably cognate with cubō ("bend oneself, lie down"), Italian gobba ("humpback"), Greek κύφος (kyphos, "humpback, bent"), κύβος (kybos, "cube, vertebra").

Full definition of gibbous

Adjective

1. Characterized by convexity; protuberant.
• 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge,In fact, what these gibbous human shapes specially represented was ready money—money insistently ready ...
2. (astronomy) Phase of moon or planet between first quarter and full or between full and last quarter.
3. Humpbacked.
• 1697, Dryden, Aeneid,A pointed flinty rock, all bare and black,Grew gibbous from behind the mountain's back;

Derived terms

• gibbous moon