hebes
See also: Hebes
English
Noun
hebes
- plural of hebe
Anagrams
- heebs
Arapaho
Noun
hebes
- beaver (aquatic rodent)
Latin
Etymology
From hebeō (“I am blunt or dull”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈhe.bes/, [ˈhɛ.bɛs]
Adjective
hebes (genitive hebetis); third declension
- blunt, dull, not sharp or pointed
- Synonym: retūsus
- (of senses) dim, faint, dull; tasteless, without smell
- (figuratively) dull, obtuse, sluggish, heavy, stupid; slow, tardy
- Synonym: brūtus
Inflection
Third declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
| Nominative | hebes | hebes | hebetēs | hebetia | |
| Genitive | hebetis | hebetis | hebetium | hebetium | |
| Dative | hebetī | hebetī | hebetibus | hebetibus | |
| Accusative | hebetem | hebes | hebetēs | hebetia | |
| Ablative | hebetī | hebetī | hebetibus | hebetibus | |
| Vocative | hebes | hebes | hebetēs | hebetia | |
Note that there is an alternative accusative singular form hebem and an alternative ablative singular form hebete:
- Aulus Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 7, 3. In: Celsus De Medicina with an English translation by W. G. Spencer In three columes III, 1961, page 304 and the following (the text of an older reprint online: Celsus: De Medicina)
- Item procedente curatione eruptio sanguinis, aut si, antequam sinus carne impleatur, orae carnosae fiunt, illa quoque ipsa carne hebete nec firma.
- Again, bad signs in the course of the treatment are: haemorrhage, or if the margins become fleshy before the sinus has been filled up by flesh, and this flesh is insensitive and not firm.
- Item procedente curatione eruptio sanguinis, aut si, antequam sinus carne impleatur, orae carnosae fiunt, illa quoque ipsa carne hebete nec firma.
Synonyms
- (obtuse): obēsus, pinguis
Derived terms
- hebetēscō
- hebetō
- hebetūdō
Related terms
- hebēscō
- hebetātiō
- hebetātrīx
Descendants
- English: hebete
- French: hébété
- Italian: ebete
References
- hebes in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- hebes in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hebes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette