Ebora

See also: ebora and ẹbọra

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛ.bɔ.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.bo.ra]

Proper noun

Ebora f sg (genitive Eborae); first declension

1. a city in Lusitania, now Évora

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	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