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Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Proto-Celtic *eburos (“yew”). Compare Latin Eboracum (“York”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Ebora f sg (genitive Eborae); first declension
- A city in Lusitania, now Évora
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
Descendants
- Old Galician-Portuguese: Evora
References
- “Ebora”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Ebora in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “Ebora”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “Ebora”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press