nimbe
French, noun
nimbe is spelled N-I-M-B-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written French, the 97,805th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nimbe is a French masculine noun meaning “halo; nimbus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, nimbé is a different word: “past participle of nimber”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Cercle ou auréole que les peintres ou les sculpteurs mettent autour de la tête des saints”.
What does nimbe mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehalo; nimbus
verb
- 1
past participle of nimber
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Cercle ou auréole que les peintres ou les sculpteurs mettent autour de la tête des saints. 2. Cercle que les peintres, les sculpteurs anciens traçaient quelquefois autour de la tête d’une divinité, d’un héros divinisé. 3. Cercle que, sur certaines médailles, et particulièrement sur des médailles du Bas-Empire, on remarque autour de la tête de quelques empereurs. 4. Halo ou flou qui entoure une personne ou une chose.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of nimbe
- nimbes plural
- nimbée feminine
- nimbés masculine plural
- nimbées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to nimbe
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is nimbe in French?
nimbe appears about once in every 9 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).