iuba

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈju.ba/
• Rhymes: -uba
• Hyphenation: iù‧ba

Noun

iuba f (plural iube)

1. (literary, rare) Alternative form of giubba (“mane”)

Anagrams

• buia

Latin

Etymology

Apparently from the same Proto-Indo-European source as iubeō as in "moving", "billowing".

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈi̯u.ba/, [ˈi̯ʊbä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈju.ba/, [ˈjuːbä]

Noun

iuba f (genitive iubae); first declension

1. mane; the flowing hair on the neck of an animal
2. hair of the head
3. a crest on a helmet; tuft; comb of a rooster

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	iuba	iubae
Genitive	iubae	iubārum
Dative	iubae	iubīs
Accusative	iubam	iubās
Ablative	iubā	iubīs
Vocative	iuba	iubae

Derived terms

• iubātus

Descendants

• Italian: giubba
• → Portuguese: juba (learned)

References

• iuba 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)
• “iuba”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 511