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urbs.

a city, walled town

4 characters1 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈʊrps]Classical-Latin[ˈurbs]

  1. a city, walled town

    declension-3 · feminine
    Urbī ferrō flammāque minātus est.

  2. the City, Rome

    declension-3 · feminine
    Ab urbe conditā.
    Urbī et orbī.
Where this word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *werbʰ-der. Proto-Italic *worβis? Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰosder.? Latin urbs 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.

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