hebes

See also: Hebes

English

Noun

hebes

1. plural of hebe

Anagrams

• heebs

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Arapaho

Noun

hebes

1. beaver (aquatic rodent)

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Latin

Etymology

From hebeō (“I am blunt or dull”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈhe.bes/, [ˈhɛbɛs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.bes/, [ˈɛːbes]

Adjective

hebes (genitive hebetis, comparative hebetior); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. blunt, dull, not sharp or pointed

   Synonym: retūsus

2. (of senses) dim, faint, dull; tasteless, without smell
3. (figuratively) dull, obtuse, sluggish, heavy, stupid; slow, tardy

   Synonym: brūtus

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	hebes			hebetēs	hebetia
Genitive	hebetis			hebetium
Dative	hebetī			hebetibus
Accusative	hebetem	hebes		hebetēs	hebetia
Ablative	hebetī			hebetibus
Vocative	hebes			hebetēs	hebetia

Note that there is an alternative accusative singular form hebem and an alternative ablative singular form hebete:

• Aulus Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 7, 3. In: Celsus De Medicina with an English translation by W. G. Spencer In three columes III, 1961, page 304 and the following (the text of an older reprint online: Celsus: De Medicina)

  Item procedente curatione eruptio sanguinis, aut si, antequam sinus carne impleatur, orae carnosae fiunt, illa quoque ipsa carne hebete nec firma.

  Again, bad signs in the course of the treatment are: haemorrhage, or if the margins become fleshy before the sinus has been filled up by flesh, and this flesh is insensitive and not firm.

Synonyms

• (obtuse): obēsus, pinguis

Derived terms

• hebetēscō
• hebetō

• hebetūdō

Related terms

• hebēscō
• hebetātiō

• hebetātrīx

Descendants

• English: hebete
• French: hébété
• Italian: ebete

References

• “hebes”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hebes”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hebes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.