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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Unknown. A town Obba near Carthage is also obscure.
Noun
obba f (genitive obbae); first declension
- a kind of carafe to mix and decant wine
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “obba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- obba 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)
- obba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “obba”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “obba”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- “obba” in volume 9, part 2, column 36, line 32–48 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
- Deecke, Wilhelm (1884) “Jahresbericht über die italischen Sprachen, auch das Altlateinische und Etruskische, für das Jahr 1882”, in Jahresbericht über die Fortschritte der klassischen Alterthumswissenschaft (in German), volume 32, page 375
- Döderlein, Ludwig von (1836) Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologieen (in German), volume 5, Leipzig: Fried. Christ. Wilh. Vogel, pages 517–518
- Schwenck, Konrad (1836 May 29) “Lateinische Etymologien”, in Zeitschrift für die Alterthumswissenschaft (in German), volume 3, number 65, columns 527–528
Sidamo
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈobːa/
- Hyphenation: ob‧ba
Noun
obba m
- dung (animal excrement)
References
- Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007) A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia, page 81
- Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007), “obba”, in Sidaama-Amharic-English dictionary, Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department