iubar

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Latin

Etymology

Uncertain:

Pronunciation

Noun

iubar n (genitive iubaris); third declension

  1. 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 .
  2. (figuratively) a splendid appearance, glory, splendor

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

singular plural
nominative iubar iubara
genitive iubaris iubarum
dative iubarī iubaribus
accusative iubar iubara
ablative iubare iubaribus
vocative iubar iubara

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