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Latin
Etymology
From Arabic ثَرْب (ṯarb) in the eleventh century in medical translations and possibly even vernacular or used in medical practice earlier in Roman Africa since its conquest by Arabs. An alleged occurrence in Apicius is a bad correction of a 16th-century philologer where one better reads gīrō.
Pronunciation
Noun
zirbus m (genitive zirbī); second declension (Medieval Latin)
- caul, omentum
- Synonyms: ōmentum, crāticula, folium, āla, marsūpium adipōsum
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “zirbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Baist, Gottfried (1892) Literaturblatt für germanische und romanische Philologie, volume 13, pages 24b–25a
- Burnett, Charles S. F., Jacquart, Danielle (1994) Constantine the African and ʿAlī Ibn Al-ʿAbbās Al-Maǧūsī: The Pantegni and Related Texts, Leiden: E. J. Brill, →ISBN, pages 96-97
- zirbus 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)
- zirbus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Hyrtl, Joseph (1879) Das Arabische und Hebräische in der Anatomie (in German), Wien: Wilhelm Braumüller, pages 247–250