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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈju.ba/
- Rhymes: -uba
- Hyphenation: iù‧ba
Noun
iuba f (plural iube)
- (literary, rare) Alternative form of giubba (“mane”)
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Apparently from the same Proto-Indo-European source as iubeō as in "moving", "billowing".
Pronunciation
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.
Derived terms
Descendants
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