1. ĕbĕnus — Lewis & Short
ĕbĕnus, v. hebenus.
The corpus record — Latin
ĕbĕnus
ĕbĕnus
v. hebenus
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What it meant
2. ebenus — Walde–Hofmann
ebenus, (hss.) hebenus, -i f. und (vom Holz) -um, -i n. „Ebenholz- (baum)* (seit Verg. und Ov., rom.; spätl. -eus und -inus, dies aus éBéviwvoc; spätl. durch Verwechslung — „ebur“ Jul Val, Kroll RhM. 70, 601!): aus gr. £gevoc f. ds., dies aus ägypt. hbnj „Ebenholz*, das vl. nubisch ist (Spiegelberg KZ. 41, 131; daraus auch hebr. hobnim, Lewy Fremdw. 35). Aus ebenus stammt ahd. mhd. ebenus, frühnhd. ebenbaum; aus … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. ebenus, p. 419]
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.