libanus

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Latin

Etymology

From a Semitic source - see the Semitic root lbn لبن, meaning "white". See also (Hebrew לְבוֹנָה (l'voná, “frankincense”), Arabic لبان (lubān, “frankincense”)).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ba.nus/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ba.nus/,

Adjective

libanus (feminine libana, neuter libanum); first/second-declension adjective

Lebanese (of Lebanon)
frankincense

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Number	Singular				Plural
Nominative	libanus	libana	libanum		libanī	libanae	libana
Genitive	libanī	libanae	libanī		libanōrum	libanārum	libanōrum
Dative	libanō	libanae	libanō		libanīs
Accusative	libanum	libanam	libanum		libanōs	libanās	libana
Ablative	libanō	libanā	libanō		libanīs
Vocative	libane	libana	libanum		libanī	libanae	libana

See also

thūs

References

“libanus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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