So I was flipping through the ol' Latin-English dictionary today, looked up the word nimbus because I wanted to. It means "storm cloud." Damn straight, thought I. And then I started wondering if there's a Latin adjective meaning nimbusish, stormcloudish. It seemed to me that the word should be nimbosus. Hoping I'd guessed correctly, I looked it up, and there it was, right below nimbus.
Portus Nimbosus means "stormy haven."
Nimbirector is a word I made up. It's meant to mean "storm rider."
Imber Cinerum means "rain of ashes."
I like all these very much.
I'd also like to add that people who post on their blogs pictures of themselves wearing substantially less than the usual amount of clothing either a) should have genuinely attractive bodies or b) are very silly people, and by "silly" I mean "deserving of infernal torment."
posted on Wednesday, June 16, 2004
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