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English
Noun
nabis
- plural of nabi
Anagrams
- Bains, Basin, Bians, IBANs, Ibans, Sabin, bains, basin, naibs, nisab, nisba, sabin
Latin
Verb
nābis
- second-person singular future active indicative of nō
References
- nabis 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)
- “nabis”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
- “nabis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “nabis”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
Old Prussian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₃nobʰis, from *h₃nebʰ- (“navel”). Cognate with Sanskrit नाभि (nā́bhi), Ancient Greek ὀμφαλός (omphalós), Latin umbilīcus, Old English nafola (whence English navel).
Noun
nabis
- navel
- Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary
- Nabel Nabis