intibus

Latin

Alternative forms

intibum, intybus, intybum, intubus, intubum

Etymology

A Semitic borrowing, found in the same particular meaning in the Frahang-ī Pahlavīg, Jewish Babylonian Aramaic הּנְדְּבָא (hindəḇā), and Classical Syriac ܗܶܢܕܒܳܐ (hendǝḇā) and ܗܶܕ݁ܒܳܐ (heddəḇā), cognate to Arabic هَدَب (hadab, “twisted leaves or sprigs; cilium”). Compare also corylus and serpyllum for the unwarranted y in Latin.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪn.tɪ.bʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈin̪.t̪i.bus]

Noun

intibus m or f (genitive intibī); second declension

endive, succory
Synonym: ēscāria

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	intibus	intibī
genitive	intibī	intibōrum
dative	intibō	intibīs
accusative	intibum	intibōs
ablative	intibō	intibīs
vocative	intibe	intibī

Derived terms

intibāceus

Descendants

→ Byzantine Greek: ἔντυβον (éntubon)
Medieval Latin: endivia
- Catalan: endívia
- Italian: indivia, endivia
  - → Swedish: endiv
- Old French: endive
  - English: endive
  - Dutch: andijvie
    - Afrikaans: andyvie
    - → Indonesian: andéwi
    - → Papiamentu: andijvie, andijvi
    - → Sundanese: ᮃᮔ᮪ᮓᮦᮝᮤ (andéwi)
  - → Iranian Persian: آنْدیوْ (ândiv)
- German: Endivie
Mozarabic: anṭûbíya
- Spanish: endibia

References

“intibus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
intibus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.