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Latin
Etymology
Uncertain:
Pronunciation
Noun
iubar n (genitive iubaris); third declension
- radiance of celestial bodies, sunshine, light, rays of light, brightness; (less exactly) dawn, morning
239 BCE – 169 BCE,
Ennius,
Annales 571–572:
- interea fugit albus iubar Hyperionis cursum;
inde patefecit radiis rota candida caelum- meanwhile the white radiance of Hyperion fled its course;
thence the bright-shining wheel uncovered the sky with its rays
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.129-130:
- Ōceanum intereā surgēns Aurōra relīquit.
It portīs iubare exortō dēlēcta iuventūs .- Meanwhile Aurora, rising, departs from Oceanus. with Dawn’s radiance having shone forth, chosen youth go out the gates .
- (figuratively) a splendid appearance, glory, splendor
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
References
- “iubar”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Willi, Andreas (2001) “Lateinisch iubēre, griechisch εὐϑύς und ein indogermanisches Rechtskonzept”, in Historische Sprachforschung (in German), volume 114, number 1. H., pages 117–146