ibis

See also: Ibis and íbis

English

3 ibis

Etymology

From Latin ībis, from Ancient Greek ἶβις (îbis), from Egyptian hbj,

(compare Coptic ϩⲓⲃⲱⲓ (hibōi) or ϩⲓⲡ (hip)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪ.bɪs/

Noun

ibis (plural ibises or ibides)

1. Any of various long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, having long downcurved bills used to probe the mud for prey such as crustaceans.
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians upon broiled ibis and roasted river horse, that you see the mummies of those creatures in their huge bake-houses the pyramids.

Derived terms

• Australian white ibis
• sacred ibis
• straw-necked ibis

Translations

Threskiornithid

• Arabic: أَبُو مِنْجَل m (ʔabū minjal)

  Egyptian Arabic: ابو قردان m (ʔabu ʔirdān)

• Armenian: քաջահավ (hy) (kʻaǰahav), ցեծ (cʻec)
• Burarra: garrarla
• Catalan: ibis m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 朱鷺／朱鹭 (zh) (zhūlù), 朱鹭 (zh) (zhūlù)

• Dutch: ibis (nl) m
• Egyptian: (hbj)
• Finnish: iibis (fi)
• French: ibis (fr)
• German: Ibis (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἶβις f (îbis)

• Gurindji: warlapurra, warlapura, yuwayuwa
• Ido: ibiso (io)
• Japanese: 朱鷺 (ja) (とき, toki), とき (ja) (toki)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 따오기 (ko) (ttaogi)
• Kriol: aibis
• Latin: ībis (la) f
• Navajo: tsídiidaashiyishí
• Ngarinman: yuwayuwa
• Ngarrindjeri: tloperi
• Polish: ibis (pl) m
• Portuguese: íbis m
• Romanian: ibis (ro) m
• Russian: и́бис (ru) m (íbis)
• Slovene: íbis (sl) m
• Spanish: ibis (es) m
• Swahili: kwarara (sw)
• Tagalog: ibis
• Walmajarri: purlungpurlung
• Warlpiri: walaparra
• Welsh: ibis m

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ībis, from Ancient Greek ἶβις (îbis), from Egyptian

hby (hîbu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈi.βis]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈi.bis]

Noun

ibis m (invariable)

1. ibis

Further reading

• “ibis” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ibis”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “ibis” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ibis” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: i‧bis

Noun

ibis

1. the Asiatic glassfish; any member of the family
2. the Indian pellona ()

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Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪbɪs/

Noun

1. ibis

Further reading

• Template:R:PSJC
• Template:R:SSJC

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ibis, from Latin ibis, from Ancient Greek ἶβις (îbis), from Egyptian hbj.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.bɪs/, /ˈi.bəs/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: ibis

Noun

ibis m (plural ibissen, diminutive ibisje n)

1. ibis, bird of the family

Derived terms

• bruine ibis
• rode ibis
• witte ibis
• zwarte ibis

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.bis/

Noun

ibis m (plural ibis)

1. ibis

Further reading

• “ibis”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin ībis, from Ancient Greek ἶβις (îbis), from Egyptian hbj.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈibis/, [ˈiː.bis̪]
• Hyphenation: ì‧bis

Noun

ibis m (uncountable)

1. ibis

Derived terms

• ibis eremita

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Latin

ībis

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈiː.bis/, [ˈiːbɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.bis/, [ˈiːbis]

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ἶβις (îbis), from Egyptian hbj:

Noun

ībis f (genitive ībis or ībidis); third declension

1. ibis (wading bird)
   • c. 600 CE – 625 CE, Isidorus Hispalensis, Etymologiae 12.7.33:

     Ībis avis Nīlī flūminis, quae sēmetipsam purgat, rōstrō in ānum aquam fundēns. Haec serpentium ōva vēscitur, grātissimam ex eīs ēscam nīdīs suīs dēportāns.

     The ibis is a bird of the river Nile, which purges itself by pouring water into its anus with its beak. It devours the eggs of snakes, carrying from them to its nests the most welcome food.

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ībis	ībēs
Genitive	ībidis	ībium
Dative	*ībī *ībidī
Accusative	ībim ībin	ībidas
Ablative	ībide
Vocative	ībis	ībēs

Notes

This noun can be inflected using two different stems (Greek and Latin). They are inconsistently used even within the same author's works; Cicero and Pliny the Elder use both the Latin declension:

1. • c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 5.78:

     Aegyptiōrum mōrem quis ignōrat? quōrum inbūtae mentēs prāvitātis errōribus quamvīs carnificīnam prius subierint quam ībim aut aspidem aut faelem aut canem aut corcodillum violent, quōrum etiamsī inprūdentēs quippiam fēcerint, poenam nūllam recūsent.

     Who doesn't know the custom of the Egyptians? whose minds accustomed to delusions of wrongness would rather undergo as much torture as you want than desecrate the ibis or the asp or the cat or the crocodile, and to whom, even if one inadvertently did something to, he would not refuse any punishment.

   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.142:

     Ībium cinere cum adipe ānseris et īrinō perūnctīs—sīc conceptōs partūs continērī.

     • 1855 translation by John Bostock

       The ashes of a burnt ibis, it is said, employed as a friction with goose-grease and oil of iris, will prevent abortion when a female has once conceived.

and the Greek:

1. • 45 BCE, Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.82:

     Etenim fāna multa spoliāta et simulācra deōrum dē locīs sānctissimīs ablāta vidēmus ā nostrīs, at vērō nē fandō quidem audītum est crocodīlum aut ībin aut faelem violātum ab Aegyptiō.

     Since we see many sanctuaries plundered and statues of gods carried away by our people from the holiest places, but it's not even heard of for a a crocodile or an ibis or a cat to be disrespected by an Egyptian.

   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 30.61:

     Īnflātiōnēs discutit cocleārum cibus, tormina liēn ovium tostus atque ē vīnō potus, palumbis ferus ex poscā dēcoctus, adips ōtidis ex vīnō, cinis ībide sine pennīs cremātā potus.

     A diet of snails dispels flatulence, roasted sheep spleen taken with wine, wild woodpigeon taken with vinegar mixed with water, otis goose fat with wine, ashes from an ibis burnt without the feathers drunk, dispel colics.

while Ovid, most notably, uses exclusively the Greek declension:

1. • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.327–331:

     'Duxque gregis' dīxit 'fit Iuppiter; unde recurvīs
     nunc quoque fōrmātus Libys est cum cornibus Ammōn.
     Dēlius in corvō, prōlēs Semelēia caprō,
     fēle soror Phoebī, niveā Sāturnia vaccā,
     pisce Venus latuit, Cyllēnius ībidis ālīs.'

     'And leader of the flock' she said 'is made Jupiter;
     whence Lybian Ammon was also formed now with curved horns.
     Delius hid as a raven, his offspring Semeleia as a billy-goat,
     the sister of Phoebus as a cat, Saturnia as a snow-white cow,
     Venus as a fish, Cyllenius as the wings of an ibis.

The accusative plural form ībidas is encountered as well:

1. • c. 45 CE, Pomponius Mela, De Situ Orbis libri III 3.82:

     Sunt multa volucrum multa serpentium genera: dē serpentibus memorandī maximē, quōs parvōs admodum et venēnī praesentis certō annī tempore ex līmō concrētārum palūdium ēmergere, in magnō exāmine volantēs Aegyptum tendere, atque in ipsō introitū fīnium ab avibus quās ibidas appellant adversō agmine excipī pugnaque cōnficī trāditum est.

Some forms, such as the nominative and genitive plural, are only attested in the Latin declension, while others, such as the genitive and ablative singular, in the Greek. The dative, ablative plural and vocative are unattested.

Descendants

• English: ibis
• French: ibis
• Italian: ibis

• Portuguese: íbis
• Romanian: ibis
• Spanish: ibis

Etymology 2

Inflected form of eō (“go, proceed”).

Verb

(deprecated template usage) ībis

1. second-person singular future active indicative of eō

References

• “ibis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ibis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ibis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “ibis”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎^[1]
• “ibis”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Old Irish

Verb

ibis

1. third-person singular preterite absolute of ibid

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.bis/

• audio:

  (file)

Noun

1. ibis (bird)

Declension

Declension of ibis

	singular	plural
nominative	ibis	ibisy
genitive	ibisa	ibisów
dative	ibisowi	ibisom
accusative	ibisa	ibisy
instrumental	ibisem	ibisami
locative	ibisie	ibisach
vocative	ibisie	ibisy

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈibis/ [ˈi.β̞is]

Noun

ibis m (plural ibis)

1. ibis

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Tagalog

Noun

ibis

1. pagkaibis : relief from pain

Verb

ibis

1. maibsan : to be relieved from
2. ibisan : to unload