Ebora

See also: ebora and ẹbọra

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Proto-Celtic *eburos (“yew”). Compare Latin Eboracum (“York”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.bo.ra/, [ˈɛbɔrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.bo.ra/, [ˈɛːborä]

Proper noun

Ebora f sg (genitive Eborae); first declension

1. A city in Lusitania, now Évora

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Ebora
Genitive	Eborae
Dative	Eborae
Accusative	Eboram
Ablative	Eborā
Vocative	Ebora
Locative	Eborae

Descendants

• Old Galician-Portuguese: Evora
  • Portuguese: Évora

References

• “Ebora”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Ebora in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Ebora”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “Ebora”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press