The corpus record — Latin

eboreus

eboreus · adj

made of ivory

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Where it lives

Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k

What it meant

ĕbŏrĕus — Lewis & Short

ĕbŏrĕus, a, am, adj.id.,

I made of ivory, ivory: Juppiter, Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 40: mensae, Dig. 33, 7, 12, § 43: oppida, Quint. 6, 3, 61 Spald.

In the wild

eboreo Petronius, Satyricon 32

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.