urbs – Latin noun declension

Latin noun forms of urbs

Noun: urbs
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine Declension: Third

Nominative

Singularurbs
Pluralurbēs; urbīs

Genitive

Singularurbis
Pluralurbium

Dative

Singularurbī
Pluralurbibus

Accusative

Singularurbem
Pluralurbēs; urbīs

Ablative

Singularurbe
Pluralurbibus

Vocative

Singularurbs
Pluralurbēs; urbīs

Sample Sentences

  • Urbī ferrō flammāque minātus est. (He threatened the city with fire and sword.)
  • Ō dī immortālēs, ubinam gentium sumus? Quam rem pūblicam habēmus? In quā urbe vīvimus? (O immortal gods, where on earth are we? What government do we have? In what city do we live?) [106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam]
  • Ab urbe conditā. (From the founding of the City.)
  • Urbī et orbī. (To the City and the world.)
  • Caesarī cum id nūntiātum esset, eōs per prōvinciam nostram iter facere cōnārī, mātūrat ab urbe proficīscī et quam maximīs potest itineribus in Galliam ulteriōrem contendit et ad Genāvam pervēnit. (When it was reported to Caesar that they were attempting to march through our province he hastened to set out from the City, and, by as great marches as he could, proceeded to Further Gaul, and arrived at Geneva.) [c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 1.7]

Nouns inflected like urbs

urbs,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *werbʰ-der.
3. Proto-Italic *worβis?
4. Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-
5. Proto-Indo-European *-os
6. Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰosder.?
7. Latin urbs
8. Uncertain.
9. * 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”)).
10. * 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. See: English Nouns 'yard'.

Verbs referencing "urbs"

Romanian Nouns urbe.

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