iuba
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈju.ba/
- Rhymes: -uba
- Hyphenation: iù‧ba
Noun
iuba f (plural iube)
- (literary, rare) Alternative form of giubba (“mane”)
Anagrams
- buia
Latin
Etymology
Apparently from the same Proto-Indo-European source as iubeō as in "moving", "billowing".
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈi̯u.ba/, [ˈi̯ʊbä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈju.ba/, [ˈjuːbä]
Noun
iuba f (genitive iubae); first declension
- mane; the flowing hair on the neck of an animal
- hair of the head
- a crest on a helmet; tuft; comb of a rooster
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | iuba | iubae |
| Genitive | iubae | iubārum |
| Dative | iubae | iubīs |
| Accusative | iubam | iubās |
| Ablative | iubā | iubīs |
| Vocative | iuba | iubae |
Derived terms
- iubātus
Descendants
- Italian: giubba
- → Portuguese: juba (learned)
References
- iuba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “iuba”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 511