zirbus

Latin

Alternative forms

zirbum, cirbus, cirbum, girbus, girbum

Etymology

From Arabic ثَرْب‎ (ṯarb) in the eleventh century in medical translations and possibly even vernacular or used in medical practice earlier in Roman Africa since its conquest by Arabs. An alleged occurrence in Apicius is a bad correction of a 16^th-century philologer where one better reads gīrō.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈzir.bus/, [ˈd̪͡z̪ɪrbʊs̠]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡zir.bus/, [ˈd̪͡z̪irbus]

Noun

zirbus m (genitive zirbī); second declension (Medieval Latin)

caul, omentum
Synonyms: ōmentum, crāticula, folium, āla, marsūpium adipōsum

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	zirbus	zirbī
Genitive	zirbī	zirbōrum
Dative	zirbō	zirbīs
Accusative	zirbum	zirbōs
Ablative	zirbō	zirbīs
Vocative	zirbe	zirbī

Descendants

→ French: girbe
→ Italian: zirbo
→ Portuguese: zerbo
→ Spanish: zirbo

References

“zirbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Baist, Gottfried (1892) Literaturblatt für germanische und romanische Philologie, volume 13, pages 24b–25a
Burnett, Charles S. F.; Jacquart, Danielle (1994) Constantine the African and ʿAlī Ibn Al-ʿAbbās Al-Maǧūsī: The Pantegni and Related Texts, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, pages 96-97
zirbus 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)
zirbus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
Hyrtl, Joseph (1879) Das Arabische und Hebräische in der Anatomie‎ (in German), Wien: Wilhelm Braumüller, pages 247–250