ebur - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

• Beginning
• 1 Latin
  • 1.1 Alternative forms
  • 1.2 Etymology
  • 1.3 Pronunciation
  • 1.4 Noun
    * 1.4.1 Declension
    * 1.4.2 Derived terms
  • 1.5 References
• 2 Meriam
  • 2.1 Noun
• 3 Old High German
  • 3.1 Etymology
  • 3.2 Noun
    * 3.2.1 Declension
    * 3.2.2 Descendants

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ebur Bȳzantīnum (a Byzantine ivory)

• ebor (Medieval Latin)

In any case, probably cognate with the second half of Ancient Greek ἐλέφας (eléphas, “elephant”)

• (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈe.bur/, [ˈɛbʊr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈe.bur/, [ˈɛːbur]

ebur n (genitive eboris); third declension

1. ivory (material)
2. a thing made of ivory.
3. (figuratively) an elephant
   Synonyms: elephantus, elephās

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

• eborārius

• eboreus

• eburātus

• eburneus

• “ĕbur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• “ebur”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

• ĕbŭr in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 568/3.

• “ebur”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

• “ebur”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• “ebur” on pages 583–4 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

ebur

1. bird

From Proto-West Germanic *ebur. Cognates include Old English eofor, Old Norse jǫfurr.

ebur m

1. boar

Declension of ebur (masculine a-stem)

• Middle High German: ëber
  • German: Eber
  • Hunsrik: Ewert

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• la:Elephants
• la:Teeth
• Meriam lemmas
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• ulk:Birds
• Old High German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
• Old High German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
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• goh:Mammals