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From Proto-Indo-European *nebʰ-el-h₂ (cloud). Related to νέφος (néphos, cloud), Latin nebula (fog, cloud).[1]

νεφέλη (nephélēf (genitive νεφέλης); first declension

  1. cloud, mass of clouds
  2. cloud in urine
  3. cloud on a mirror
  4. (in the plural) fine bird-net
  5. (alchemy) sublimate
  1. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “νεφέλη”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1012

From Ancient Greek νεφέλη (nephélē).

νεφέλη (nefélif (plural νεφέλες)

  1. cloud