imbrex

[ im-breks, -briks ]

noun

, plural im·bri·ces [im, -br, uh, -seez, -bri-keys].

1. a convex tile, used especially in ancient Rome to cover joints in a tile roof.
2. Architecture. one of the scales in ornamental imbrication.

Word History and Origins

Origin of imbrex¹

1855–60; < Latin, equivalent to imbr- (stem of imber ) rainstorm + -ex noun suffix

Example Sentences

Pantile, pan′tīl, n. a tile with a curved surface, convex or concave with reference to its width: a tile whose cross-section forms a double curve, forming a tegula and imbrex both in one.—adj. dissenting—chapels being often roofed with these.—n.

From Project Gutenberg

Imbricatum is from imbrex, a tile, referring to the surface of the cap being torn into triangular scales, seeming to overlap one another like shingles on a roof.

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Masculine: apex, peak; cōdex, tree-trunk; grex, flock; imbrex, tile; pollex, thumb; vertex, summit; calix, cup.

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With regard, however, to the other plays of Plautus, as well as those of Caecilius, Trabea, Licinius Imbrex, Luscius Lavinius, Terence and Turpilius, there is no ground for supposing that they departed from the regular treatment of palliatae.

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