intibus

Latin

Alternative forms

• intibum, intybus, intybum, intubus, intubum

Etymology

A Semitic borrowing, found in the same particular meaning in the Frahang-ī Pahlavīg, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic הּנְדְּבָא (hindəḇā), and Classical Syriac ܗܶܢܕܒܳܐ (hendǝḇā) and ܗܶܕ݁ܒܳܐ (heddəḇā), cognate to Arabic هَدَب (hadab, “twisted leaves or sprigs; cilium”).

Compare also corylus and serpyllum for unwarranted y in Latin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈin.ti.bus/, [ˈɪn̪t̪ɪbʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.ti.bus/, [ˈin̪t̪ibus]

Noun

intibus m or f (genitive intibī); second declension

1. endive, succory

   Synonym: ēscāria

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	intibus	intibī
Genitive	intibī	intibōrum
Dative	intibō	intibīs
Accusative	intibum	intibōs
Ablative	intibō	intibīs
Vocative	intibe	intibī

Derived terms

• intibāceus

Descendants

• → Byzantine Greek: ἔντυβον (éntubon)

References

• “intibus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• intibus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.