imbrex

From Latin imbrex.

imbrex (plural imbrices)

1. (archaeology) A roof tile common in Ancient Greek and Roman architecture, used in an overlapping formation with the tegula.

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From imber. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪm.brɛks]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈim.breks]

imbrex f or m (genitive imbricis); third declension

1. (architecture, roofing, chiefly in the plural) imbrex, pantile: a curved roof tile used in an overlapping formation with the larger, heavier and flat tegula

   Coordinate term: tēgula

   • c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 2.6.21–24:

     At ita me di deaeque omnis ament,
     nisi mihi supplicium virgeum de te datur
     longum diutinumque, a mane ad vesperum,
     quod meas confregisti imbricis et tegulas, […]

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   • c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Mostellaria 1.2.25–26:

     atque illud saepe fit: tempestas venit,
     confringit tegulas imbricesque:

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   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.152:

     Butadis inventum est rubricam addere aut ex rubra creta fingere, primusque personas tegularum extremis imbricibus inposuit, quae inter initia prostypa vocavit; […] .

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   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 4.295–298:

     Exiguus primum atque ipsos contractus in usus
     eligitur locus; hunc angustique imbrice tecti
     parietibusque premunt artis et quattuor addunt,
     quattuor a ventis obliqua luce fenestras.

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2. (transferred senses), of things shaped like a pantile:
   1. a gutter, a trough for watering beasts

      Synonyms: canālis, alveus

      • 234 BCE – 149 BCE, Cato the Elder, De Agri Cultura 21.3:

        Cupa qua fini in modiolos erit, utrimque secus imbricibus ferreis quattuor de suo sibi utrimque secus facito qui figas. Imbrices medias clavulis figito. Supra imbrices extrinsecus cupam pertundito, qua clavus eat, qui orbem cludat.

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      • 4 CE – c. 70 CE, Columella, De Re Rustica 9.13.6:

        Nonnulli rorem marinum aqua mulsea decoctum, cum gelaverit, imbricibus infusum praebent libandum.

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      • 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 17.25.114:

        Quod si longius adferantur pomorum calami, rapo infixos optime custodire sucum arbitrantur, servari inter duos imbrices iuxta rivos vel piscinas utrimque terra obstructos, vitium vero in scrobibus siccis stramento opertos ac deinde terra obrutos, ut cacumine exstent.

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Third-declension noun.

• imbricō

• → English: imbrex (learned)
• → French: imbrex (learned)
• Italian: embrice

• “imbrex”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “imbrex”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “imbrex”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.