ibis

Etymology

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

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

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) 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 October 18, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in The Whale, 1st British edition, London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 14262177; Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, 14 November 1851, OCLC 57395299:

     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.

Etymology

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

hby (hîbu).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈi.bis/

Noun

ibis m (plural ibis)

1. ibis

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: i‧bis

Noun

ibis

1. the Asiatic glassfish; any member of the family Ambassidae

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪbɪs/

Noun

ibis m

1. ibis

Further reading

• ibis in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• ibis in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.bis/

Noun

ibis m (plural ibis)

1. ibis

Further reading

• “ibis” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

ibis m (invariable)

1. ibis

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈiː.bis/, [ˈiː.bɪs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.bis/, [ˈiː.bis]

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

Inflected form of eō (“go, proceed”).

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
• ibis in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Verb

ibis

1. third-person singular preterite absolute of ibid

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.bʲis/

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Noun

ibis m anim

1. ibis (bird)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈibis/, [ˈiβis]

Noun

ibis m (plural ibis)

1. ibis

Noun

ibis

1. pagkaibis : relief from pain

Verb

ibis

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