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urbo

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Esperanto

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin urbs (city).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈurbo/
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  • Rhymes: -urbo
  • Syllabification: ur‧bo

Noun

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urbo (accusative singular urbon, plural urboj, accusative plural urbojn)

  1. city, town
    Des Moines estas usona urbo kun franca nomo.Des Moines is an American city with a French name.
    • 1929, L. L. Zamenhof, edited by Johannes Dietterle, Originala Verkaro [Original Works]‎[1] (paperback), Leipzig: Ferdinand Hirt & Sohn, page 58:
      Vi plendas, ke en via urbo ĝis nun neniu ankoraŭ ion scias pri la lingvo Esperanto!
      You complain that as of now, nobody in your city knows anything about the Esperanto language yet!
    • 2012, Plato, translated by Donald Broadribb, La Respubliko (Traduko al Esperanto) [The Republic (Translation into Esperanto)], 2nd corrected edition (paperback), New York: Mondial, →ISBN, page 17:
      Polemarĥo diris: "Sokrato, ŝajnas al mi ke vi intencas iri al la urbo."
      Polemarchus said: "Socrates, it seems to me that you intend to go to the city."

Derived terms

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Ido

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Esperanto urboLatin urbsItalian urbeSpanish urbe.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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urbo (plural urbi)

  1. city, town

Derived terms

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Latin

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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urbō

  1. dative/ablative singular of urbum

Verb

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urbō (present infinitive urbāre); first conjugation, no passive, no perfect or supine stems

  1. alternative form of urvō

Conjugation

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References

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  • urvo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • urbo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • urbo in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung