different between ephebus vs ephebe

Latin

Alternative forms

• ephoebus (nonstandard)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (éph?bos, “adolescent”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /e?p?e?.bus/, [??p?e?b?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e?fe.bus/, [??f??bus]

Noun

eph?bus m (genitive eph?b?); second declension

1. a male Greek youth
2. youth (aged about eighteen to twenty years)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

• English: ephebe
• French: éphèbe
• Spanish: efebo

References

• ephebus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ephebus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ephebus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• ephebus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Etymology

Via Latin eph?bus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (éph?bos, “adolescent”), from ??? (epí, “early”) +? ??? (h?b?, “manhood”), late 19th c.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??fi?b/, /??fi?b/, /??fi?b/

Noun

ephebe (plural ephebes or ephebi)

1. (historical) A 18- to 20-year-old man in ancient Greece undergoing military training.
2. (by extension) A young man; a youth.

Derived terms

• ephebophilia

Related terms

• ephebos
• ephebus

References

Latin

Noun

eph?be m

1. vocative singular of eph?bus