Originally Posted By: adLib
Does anyone know how you get from:

nubilous
to
nubile?

They look like they should be related, but the meanings are very dissimilar.


Only way I know is to go back a few entries in the OED. They don't seem to be related. Maybe Nuncle z knows something about it. AHD doesn't have nubilous and only takes nubile back to the Latin verb nubere, 'to marry'. OED takes nubilous back to the Latin noun nubes, 'clouds'.