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ibis

See also: Ibis and íbis

English

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Etymology

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Mentioned in the Wycliffe Bible as ybyn or ibin, as ibys from 16th century and ibis shortly after. From Latin ībis, from Ancient Greek ἶβις (îbis), from Egyptian

hbG26

(hbj) (compare Coptic ϩⲓⲃⲱⲓ (hibōi) or ϩⲓⲡ (hip)).

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ibis (plural ibis or ibises or ibides or ibes)

  1. Any of various long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, having long downcurved bills used to probe the mud for prey such as crustaceans.

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin ībis, from Ancient Greek ἶβις (îbis), from Egyptian

hbG26

(hby; hîbu).

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Noun

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ibis m (invariable)

  1. ibis

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Cebuano

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  • Hyphenation: i‧bis

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ibis

  1. an Asiatic glassfish; any member of the family Ambassidae
  2. an Indian pellona (Pellona ditchella)

Czech

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Noun

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ibis m anim

  1. ibis

Declension

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Declension of ibis (mixed masculine animate)
singular plural
nominative ibis ibisi, ibisové
genitive ibisa, ibise ibisů
dative ibisu, ibisi, ibisovi ibisům
accusative ibisa, ibise ibisy, ibise
vocative ibise, ibisi ibisi, ibisové
locative ibisu, ibisi, ibisovi ibisech, ibisích
instrumental ibisem ibisy, ibisi

Further reading

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  • “ibis”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “ibis”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch ibis, from Latin ibis, from Ancient Greek ἶβις (îbis), from Egyptian hbj.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈi.bɪs/, /ˈi.bəs/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ibis

Noun

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ibis m (plural ibissen, diminutive ibisje n)

  1. ibis, bird of the family

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French

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ibis m (plural ibis)

  1. ibis

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin ībis, from Ancient Greek ἶβις (îbis), from Egyptian hbj.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈi.bis/
  • Rhymes: -ibis
  • Hyphenation: ì‧bis

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ibis m (invariable)

  1. ibis

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Latin

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ībis

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Etymology 1

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From Ancient Greek ἶβις (îbis), from Egyptian
hbZ4G26
 (hbj).

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ībis f (genitive ībis or ībidis); third declension

  1. ibis (wading bird)
    • c. 600 CE – 625 CE, Isidorus Hispalensis, Etymologiae 12.7.33:
      Ībis avis Nīlī flūminis, quae sēmetipsam pūrgat, rōstrō in ānum aquam fundēns. Haec serpentium ōva vēscitur, grātissimam ex eīs ēscam nīdīs suīs dēportāns.
      The ibis is a bird of the river Nile, which purges itself by pouring water into its anus with its beak. It devours the eggs of snakes, carrying from them to its nests the most welcome food.
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This noun can be inflected using two different stems (Greek and Latin). They are inconsistently used even within the same author's works; Cicero and Pliny the Elder use both the Latin declension:

    • c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 5.78:
      Aegyptiōrum mōrem quis ignōrat? quōrum inbūtae mentēs prāvitātis errōribus quamvīs carnificīnam prius subierint quam ībim aut aspidem aut faelem aut canem aut corcodillum violent, quōrum etiamsī inprūdentēs quippiam fēcerint, poenam nūllam recūsent.
      Who doesn't know the custom of the Egyptians? whose minds accustomed to delusions of wrongness would rather undergo as much torture as you want than desecrate the ibis or the asp or the cat or the crocodile, and to whom, even if one inadvertently did something to, he would not refuse any punishment.
    • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.142:
      Ībium cinere cum adipe ānseris et īrinō perūnctīs—sīc conceptōs partūs continērī.
      • 1855 translation by John Bostock
        The ashes of a burnt ibis, it is said, employed as a friction with goose-grease and oil of iris, will prevent abortion when a female has once conceived.

and the Greek:

    • 45 BCE, Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.82:
      Etenim fāna multa spoliāta et simulācra deōrum dē locīs sānctissimīs ablāta vidēmus ā nostrīs, at vērō nē fandō quidem audītum est crocodīlum aut ībin aut faelem violātum ab Aegyptiō.
      Since we see many sanctuaries plundered and statues of gods carried away by our people from the holiest places, but it's not even heard of for a crocodile or an ibis or a cat to be disrespected by an Egyptian.
    • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.61:
      Īnflātiōnēs discutit cocleārum cibus, tormina liēn ovium tostus atque ē vīnō potus, palumbis ferus ex poscā dēcoctus, adips ōtidis ex vīnō, cinis ībide sine pennīs cremātā potus.
      A diet of snails dispels flatulence, roasted sheep spleen taken with wine, wild woodpigeon taken with vinegar mixed with water, otis goose fat with wine, ashes from an ibis burnt without the feathers drunk, dispel colics.

while Ovid, most notably, uses exclusively the Greek declension:

    • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.327–331:
      'Duxque gregis' dīxit 'fit Iuppiter; unde recurvīs
      nunc quoque fōrmātus Libys est cum cornibus Ammōn.
      Dēlius in corvō, prōlēs Semelēia caprō,
      fēle soror Phoebī, niveā Sāturnia vaccā,
      pisce Venus latuit, Cyllēnius ībidis ālīs.'
      'And leader of the flock' she said 'is made Jupiter;
      whence Lybian Ammon was also formed now with curved horns.
      Delius hid as a raven, his offspring Semeleia as a billy-goat,
      the sister of Phoebus as a cat, Saturnia as a snow-white cow,
      Venus as a fish, Cyllenius as the wings of an ibis.

The accusative plural form ībidas is encountered as well:

    • c. 45 CE, Pomponius Mela, De Situ Orbis libri III 3.82:
      Sunt multa volucrum multa serpentium genera: dē serpentibus memorandī maximē, quōs parvōs admodum et venēnī praesentis certō annī tempore ex līmō concrētārum palūdium ēmergere, in magnō exāmine volantēs Aegyptum tendere, atque in ipsō introitū fīnium ab avibus quās ibidas appellant adversō agmine excipī pugnaque cōnficī trāditum est.

Some forms, such as the nominative and genitive plural, are only attested in the Latin declension, while others, such as the genitive and ablative singular, in the Greek. The dative, ablative plural and vocative are unattested.

Declension
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Third declension noun (irregular)

singular plural
nominative ībis ībidēs
ībēs
genitive ībidis
ībis 		ībidum
ībium
dative ībidī
ībī 		ībidibus
ībibus
accusative ībidem
ībim
ībem
ībin 		ībidas
ībidēs
ablative ībide
ībī 		ībidibus
ībibus
vocative ībis ībidēs
ībēs

Only attested forms are ībis as nominative singular, ībidis as genitive singular, ībim and ībin as accusative singular, ībide as ablative singular, ībēs as nominative plural, ībium as genitive plural and *ībidas* as accusative plural

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  • English: ibis
  • French: ibis
  • Italian: ibis
  • Portuguese: íbis
  • Romanian: ibis
  • Spanish: ibis

Etymology 2

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Inflected form of eō (“go, proceed”).

Verb

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ībis

  1. second-person singular future active indicative of eō

References

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  • “ibis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “ibis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ibis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “ibis”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎[1]
  • “ibis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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ibis

  1. ibis: any of various long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, having long downcurved bills used to probe the mud for prey such as crustaceans
    • c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, […], volume I, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, Leviticus XI:12–19, pages 315–316, columns 2 and margin:
      Alle thingis in watris that han not fynnes and scalis, schulen be pollutid, These thingis ben of foulis whiche ȝe schulen not ete, and schulen be eschewid of ȝou; an egle, and a grippe, aliete, and a kyte, and a vultur by his kynde; and al of `rauyns kynde bi his licnesse; a strucioun, and nyȝt crowe, a lare, and an hauke bi his kinde; an owle, and dippere, and ibis*; a swan and cormoraunt, and a pellican; a fawcun, a iay bi his kynde; a leepwynke, and a reremows. […] * ibis, that is, a ciconye, that etith paddokis and serpentis. bcgknqx. ibis, that is, an vnclene watir foule, that with his bille puttynge water into his ers, purgith himsilf. s.
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Verb

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ibis

  1. third-person singular preterite absolute of ibid

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ibis

Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin ībis.

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Noun

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ibis m animal

  1. ibis (any bird of the family Threskiornithidae)

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Declension of ibis
singular plural
nominative ibis ibisy
genitive ibisa ibisów
dative ibisowi ibisom
accusative ibisa ibisy
instrumental ibisem ibisami
locative ibisie ibisach
vocative ibisie ibisy

Further reading

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  • ibis in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • ibis in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French ibis, from Latin ibis.

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ibis m (plural ibiși)

  1. ibis

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative ibis ibisul ibiși ibișii
genitive-dative ibis ibisului ibiși ibișilor
vocative ibisule ibișilor

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈibis/ [ˈi.β̞is]
  • Rhymes: -ibis
  • Syllabification: i‧bis

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ibis m (plural ibis)

  1. ibis

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Tagalog

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Etymology 1

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From Greater Central Philippine *əbəs (“below; descend”). Compare Cebuano ubos and Maranao bes (“baby; full term fetus development”).

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ibís (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜊᜒᜐ᜔)

  1. alighting (from a vehicle or animal)
    Synonyms: baba, pagbaba, lunsad, paglunsad
  2. unloading of cargo
    Synonyms: diskarga, pagdidiskarga
  3. aid given to unload a burden (on the head or shoulders)
    Antonyms: atang, pag-aatang
  4. unharnessing (of a work animal)
    Synonyms: awas, pag-aawas
  5. (figurative) relief from hardship, pain, sorrow, etc.
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Etymology 2

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ibis (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜊᜒᜐ᜔)

  1. a type of silver fish from the genus Carassius

Further reading

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  • “ibis”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

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