teba

Borrowed from Hebrew תֵּבָה (tevá, tēḇa, “box, ark”).

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• Hyphenation: te‧ba

teba f (plural tebot)

1. bima in a Sephardic synagogue

From Sabine, cf. also Tībur. If vowel long, can be compared with Θῆβαι (Thêbai) - in fact just this is conjectured by Varro;^[1] if short, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tebʰ- (“post, pole, base”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈteː.ba], [ˈtɛ.ba]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt̪ɛː.ba]
• Note: the length of the vowel is unknown.

tē̆ba f (genitive tē̆bae); first declension

1. hill

First-declension noun.

• “teba”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• teba in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Introduction to the History of the Indo-European Languages, p. 214

• IPA^(key): /tè.bà/

tèbà

1. eba (a swallow made with cassava flour (gàri))

• ťa

• IPA^(key): [ˈceba]

teba

1. genitive/accusative of ty