Nebbia
NOUN [feminine]
Meaning and English translation 🔖
Fog, Mist
🇬🇧 Extended condensation of tiny water droplets that forms near the ground, reducing visibility.
🇮🇹 Esteso addensamento di minuscole gocce d'acqua che si forma per condensazione a poca altezza dal suolo, riducendo la visibilità.
Example sentences 💬
Con questa nebbia non si vede a un metro di distanza.
In this fog, you can't see a meter ahead.
La nebbia ha causato ritardi all'aeroporto.
The fog caused delays at the airport.
Stamattina c'era una leggera nebbia sulla campagna.
This morning there was a light fog over the countryside.
I fari dell'auto bucavano la nebbia.
The car headlights pierced through the fog.
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Idioms with nebbia 🇮🇹
Nebbia fitta
→ Thick fog
La nebbia fitta ha causato diversi incidenti.
The thick fog caused several accidents.
Nebbia che si taglia col coltello
→ Fog so thick you could cut it with a knife
C'è una nebbia così fitta che si taglia col coltello.
The fog is so thick you could cut it with a knife.
Nebbione
→ Very thick fog
C'era un nebbione che non si vedeva niente.
There was such a thick fog you couldn't see anything.
Note: augmentative of nebbia, masculine noun
Banco di nebbia
→ Fog bank
Un banco di nebbia ha costretto tutte le macchine a rallentare.
A bank of fog forced all the cars to slow down.
Fari fendinebbia
→ Fog lights
Con questa visibilità devi accendere i fari fendinebbia.
With this visibility, you need to turn on your fog lights.
Nebbioso / Nebuloso
→ Foggy (literal)
Una mattina nebbiosa di novembre.
A foggy November morning.
→ Hazy, unclear (figurative)
Un ricordo nebuloso del passato.
A hazy memory from the past.
Note: adjective
Annebbiare
→ To cloud, to blur (figurative)
La rabbia gli annebbiava il giudizio.
Anger was clouding his judgment.
Note: transitive, regular verb
Where does the word nebbia come from? 🔎
Nebbia has its roots in the Latin nebula. Originally, nebula referred to a wide range of atmospheric phenomena, such as clouds and mist. Over time, its meaning has been refined to specifically indicate fog, namely that condensation of water vapor that creates reduced visibility near the ground, while cloud has taken on the specific meaning of atmospheric formation at altitude and nebula has remained as a scientific term to indicate vast clouds of interstellar gas and dust.
