ebur

Latin

ebur Bȳzantīnum (a Byzantine ivory)

Loan word, probably from Demotic yb (“ivory, Elephantine”), from Egyptian

(ꜣbw, “ivory, elephant, Elephantine”). Compare Coptic ⲓⲏⲃ (iēb, “Elephantine”); also note Sanskrit इभ (íbha) and Tigre [script needed] (ʔabot).

In any case, probably cognate with the second half of Ancient Greek ἐλέφας (eléphas, “elephant”)

ebur n (genitive eboris); third declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

“ĕbur”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ebur”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
ĕbŭr in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 568/3.
“ebur”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ebur”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
“ebur” on pages 583–4 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

ebur

ebur m

Declension of ebur (masculine a-stem)