teba

See also: Teba

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew תֵּבָה (tēḇa, “box, ark”).

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: te‧ba

Noun

teba f (plural tebot)

1. bima in a Sephardic synagogue

Latin

Etymology

From Sabine, cf. also Tībur. If vowel long, can be compared with Θῆβαι (Thêbai) - in fact just this is conjectured by Varro; if short, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tebʰ- (“post, pole, base”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈteː.ba/, [ˈt̪eːbä] or IPA^(key): /ˈte.ba/, [ˈt̪ɛbä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈte.ba/, [ˈt̪ɛːbä]
• Note: the length of the vowel is unknown.

Noun

tē̆ba f (genitive tē̆bae); first declension

1. hill

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tē̆ba	tē̆bae
Genitive	tē̆bae	tē̆bārum
Dative	tē̆bae	tē̆bīs
Accusative	tē̆bam	tē̆bās
Ablative	tē̆bā	tē̆bīs
Vocative	tē̆ba	tē̆bae

References

• “teba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• teba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Introduction to the History of the Indo-European Languages, p. 214

Nupe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tè.bà/

Noun

tèbà

1. eba (a swallow made with cassava flour (gàri))

Slovak

Alternative forms

• ťa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈceba]

Pronoun

teba

1. genitive/accusative of ty