iuba

Apparently from the same Proto-Indo-European source as iubeō as in "moving", "billowing".

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈju.ba/, [ˈjʊ.ba]

iuba f (genitive iubae); first declension

1. mane; the flowing hair on the neck of an animal
2. hair of the head
3. a crest on a helmet; tuft; comb of a rooster

First declension.

• iubātus

• Italian: giuba
• Portuguese: juba

• iuba in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• iuba in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 511