intibus
Latin
Alternative forms
- intibum, intybus, intybum, intubus, intubum
Etymology
A Semitic borrowing, found in the same particular meaning in the Frahang-ī Pahlavīg, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic הּנְדְּבָא (hindəḇā), and Classical Syriac ܗܶܢܕܒܳܐ (hendǝḇā) and ܗܶܕ݁ܒܳܐ (heddəḇā), cognate to Arabic هَدَب (hadab, “twisted leaves or sprigs; cilium”).
Compare also corylus and serpyllum for unwarranted y in Latin.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈin.ti.bus/, [ˈɪn̪t̪ɪbʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈin.ti.bus/, [ˈin̪t̪ibus]
Noun
intibus m or f (genitive intibī); second declension
- endive, succory
- Synonym: ēscāria
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | intibus | intibī |
| Genitive | intibī | intibōrum |
| Dative | intibō | intibīs |
| Accusative | intibum | intibōs |
| Ablative | intibō | intibīs |
| Vocative | intibe | intibī |
Derived terms
- intibāceus
Descendants
- → Byzantine Greek: ἔντυβον (éntubon)
References
- “intibus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- intibus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette