Oxford Latin Dictionary
Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2105.urbs on page 2105
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urbs city
urbs is a Latin Noun that primarily means city.
Definitions for urbs
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
city
English derivatives:
urban urbane urbanity suburb suburban
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
A city, large town (either as a place or as a political entity). (b) (w. name of city expr, in various ways). (c) a chief city, capital.
- 2
(spec.) The city of Rome. (b) to be outside the walls of Rome (said of victorious generals awaiting the senate's leave to enter Rome in triumph, of provincial governors waiting to set out for their provinces, etc.).
Sentences with urbs
Latin to English
Urbs flammīs dēlēbatur.Compare The city was being destroyed by flames.
Haec urbs ā tyrannō dēlēbātur; īnsidiīs dēlēbitur.Compare This city was being destroyed by the tyrant; it will be destroyed by a plot.
Puerī in viās urbis ēgressī mox lūdō appropinquābant.Compare The boys, having gone out into the streets of the city, soon were approaching the school.
Difficile est saturam non scribere. nam quis iniquae tam patiens urbis, tam ferreus, ut teneat se...Compare It is hard not to write satire. For who is so tolerant of this unjust city, so unfeeling, as to hold himself back.
Teneo alius castra; odi hostis: ego urbs et res urbanus tueor.Compare Let others keep the camp; let them hate the enemy: We will take care of the city and the affairs of the city.
Sicilia atque Africa, sine qui urbs atque Italia tueor non possum, vester fides committo.Compare He has entrusted to your fidelity Sicily and Africa, without which he cannot defend the city and Italy.
Is civis vis, ferrum, periculum, urbs et omnis patria praesidium depello.Compare By violence, by the sword, by dangers, he banished that citizen from the city, and from all the bulwarks of his country.
Murus video, qui Piraeus urbs iungo.Compare He saw the walls which join the Piraeus to the city.
Declension table for urbs
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | urbs | urbēs |
| Gen. | urbis | urbium / -um |
| Dat. | urbī | urbibus |
| Acc. | urbem | urbēs / -īs |
| Abl. | urbe | urbibus |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 93.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 2105.
- Word frequencies
- Christopher Francese, "Latin Core Vocabulary," Dickinson College Commentaries, last modified 2014, http://dcc.dickinson.edu.
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 119.
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Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
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Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "urbs, urbis (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 21, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/urbs-urbis.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 93.urbs, urbis on page 93
