urbs

== English == === Etymology === From Latin urbs. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɜːbz/ (General American) IPA(key): /ɝbz/ Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bz === Noun === urbs (plural urbes) A walled city in Ancient Rome. === Anagrams === rubs, srub, RUBs, burs, brus, Brus, Burs == Latin == === Etymology === Uncertain. From Proto-Italic *worβis, from Proto-Indo-European *werbʰ- (“to enclose”) (compare Umbrian 𐌖𐌄𐌓𐌚𐌀𐌋𐌄 (uerfale, “area for taking auspices”), Hittite [script needed] (warpa-, “enclosure”), Tocharian A warpi (“garden”), Tocharian B werwiye (“garden”)). Derivation from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos (“city”) (from *gʰerdʰ- (“to enclose”), whence e.g. Hittite [script needed] (gurtas, “citadel”) Sanskrit गृह (gṛhá, “house”), English yard) has been proposed, but suffers from irregularities; *horbus would be rather expected. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈʊrps] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈurbs] === Noun === urbs f (genitive urbis); third declension a city, walled town the City, Rome ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun (i-stem). Nominative/accusative/vocative plural urbīs is rare. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Inherited: Old Lombard: orba (“Rome”) Borrowed: → English: urbs → Esperanto: urbo → Ido: urbo → Italian: urbe, Urbe → Portuguese: urbe → Romanian: urbe → Spanish: urbe === References === Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “ŭrbs”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 691 === Further reading === “urbs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “urbs”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “urbs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.