Noun: rib
Sample Sentences
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On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex. [1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter I, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume I, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 1:]
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a broken rib on the umbrella
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'Near to it was the portrait of his rib, Dame Middleton.' [1862, George Borrow, Wild Wales:]
Nouns inflected like rib
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English rib, ribbe, from Old English ribb (“rib”), from Proto-West Germanic *ribi, from Proto-Germanic *ribją (“rib, reef”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rebʰ- (“arch, ceiling, cover”).
2. Cognate with Dutch rib (“rib”), Norwegian ribbe (“sparerib”), Norwegian ribben (“rib”), Low German ribbe (“rib”), German Rippe (“rib”), Old Norse rif (“rib, reef”), Serbo-Croatian rèbro (“rib”).
3. (wife or woman): In reference to the creation of Eve from Adam's rib in the Bible. See: Old English Nouns '
ribb', Dutch Nouns '
rib', German Nouns '
Rippe'.
Verbs referencing "rib"
Danish Nouns
rev, German Nouns
Rippe, Swedish Nouns
ribba, Danish Nouns
ribbe, Finnish Nouns
ribsi.