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Latin
Etymology
Probably related to bēlua (“beast”), written belva, belba in Late Latin.[1]
Noun
belbus m (genitive belbī); second declension
- (Late Latin) hyena
- Gordiani Tres Iuli Capitolini , cap. 33, num. 1; in: Scriptores Historiae Augustae recensvit Hermannus Peter volumen alterum, Lipsia, 1865, page 51:
- belbi, id est yaenae, decem,
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Synonyms
References
- “belbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- belbus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.