ebur

• ebor (Medieval)

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”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.bur/, [ˈɛ.bʊr]

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ebur n (genitive eboris); third declension

1. ivory (material)
2. a thing made of ivory.
3. (figuratively) an elephant

Third declension neuter.

• (elephant): elephantus, elephās

• English: ivory
• French: ivoire
• Italian: avorio
• Old Irish: ebur
  • Irish: eabhar
• Romanian: ivoriu
• Spanish: ébore

• 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

1. bird

From Proto-Germanic *eburaz. Cognates include Old English eofor, Old Norse jǫfurr.

ebur m

1. boar

• Middle High German: ëber
  • German: Eber