intibus

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Latin

Alternative forms

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

Noun

intibus m or f (genitive intibī); second declension

  1. 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

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.
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