libanus
See also: Libanus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From a Semitic source - see the Semitic root lbn لبن, meaning "white". See also (Hebrew לְבוֹנָה (l'voná, “frankincense”), Arabic لبان (lubān, “frankincense”)).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈli.ba.nus/, [ˈlʲɪbänʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈli.ba.nus/, [ˈliːbänus]
Adjective edit
libanus (feminine libana, neuter libanum); first/second-declension adjective
- Lebanese (of Lebanon)
- frankincense
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | libanus | libana | libanum | libanī | libanae | libana | |
| Genitive | libanī | libanae | libanī | libanōrum | libanārum | libanōrum | |
| Dative | libanō | libanō | libanīs | ||||
| Accusative | libanum | libanam | libanum | libanōs | libanās | libana | |
| Ablative | libanō | libanā | libanō | libanīs | |||
| Vocative | libane | libana | libanum | libanī | libanae | libana | |
See also edit
References edit
- “libanus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers