hebes

hebes

1. plural of hebe

• heebs

hebes

1. beaver (aquatic rodent)

From hebeō (“I am blunt or dull”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈhe.bes/, [ˈhɛ.bɛs]

hebes (genitive hebetis); third declension

1. blunt, dull, not sharp or pointed

   Synonym: retūsus

2. (of senses) dim, faint, dull; tasteless, without smell
3. (figuratively) dull, obtuse, sluggish, heavy, stupid; slow, tardy

   Synonym: brūtus

Third declension.

Note that there is an alternative accusative singular form hebem and an alternative ablative singular form hebete:

• Aulus Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 7, 3. In: Celsus De Medicina with an English translation by W. G. Spencer In three columes III, 1961, page 304 and the following (the text of an older reprint online: Celsus: De Medicina)

  Item procedente curatione eruptio sanguinis, aut si, antequam sinus carne impleatur, orae carnosae fiunt, illa quoque ipsa carne hebete nec firma.

  Again, bad signs in the course of the treatment are: haemorrhage, or if the margins become fleshy before the sinus has been filled up by flesh, and this flesh is insensitive and not firm.

• (obtuse): obēsus, pinguis

• English: hebete
• French: hébété
• Italian: ebete

• hebes in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hebes in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hebes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette