different between ibex vs obex

English

Etymology

From Latin ?bex (“chamois”), possibly from Iberian or Aquitanian; akin to Old Spanish bezerro (“bull”) (modern becerro (“yearling”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?b?ks/

Noun

ibex (plural ibex or ibexes or ibices)

1. A type of wild mountain goat of the genus Capra, such as the species Capra ibex.

Translations

Anagrams

• Xibe, exbi-

Latin

Etymology

Loanword of uncertain origin; suggested to be from a pre-Latin substrate language spoken in the Alps, as the ibex is native to the mountain range. If an Indo-European language, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(h?)eb?- (“climbing”).

Or, possibly of Iberian or Aquitanian origin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?i?.beks/, [?i?b?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?i.beks/, [?i?b?ks]

Noun

?bex m (genitive ?bicis); third declension

1. chamois

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• (Late Latin) hybicum

Descendants

• Asturian: robizu, rebezu
• English: ibex
• Galician: rebezo
• Romanian: ibex
• Spanish: ibex, íbice, rebeco, robezo

References

• ibex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ibex in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ibex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Spanish

Noun

ibex m (plural ibex)

1. ibex

English

Etymology

From Latin obex (“barrier, wall”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???.b?ks/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?o??b?ks/

Noun

obex (plural obices)

1. (anatomy) A small, crescentic fold of white matter that covers the inferior angle of the floor of the fourth ventricle.

References

• “obex”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “obex”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Latin

Etymology

From obici? (“to throw or put before or towards”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?o?.beks/, [?o?b?ks?] or IPA^(key): /?o.beks/, [??b?ks?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?o.beks/, [???b?ks]

In Classical Latin, the forms of this word built on the oblique stem obic- may have originally been pronounced with an unwritten /j/ sound, making the first syllable of the word /ob/ (which contains the short vowel /o/ and scans as a heavy syllable because of the coda consonant /b/). For example, in Attic Nights 4.17, Aulus Gellius indicates that the learned grammarian Sulpicius Apollinaris read obicibus with a short o and a doubled ("gemina") letter i where it occurs in Vergil's Georgics with heavy-light-light-heavy scansion; this implies a pronunciation /ob.ji.ki.bus/. The same situation of a single letter I potentially representing a sequence of the consonant /j/ and short vowel /i/ is found with the verb obici? and a number of other prefixed verbs derived from iaci?.

Gellius criticizes as ignorant those who pronounce obici?bat and subices with long vowels (i.e. /o?/ and /u?/) for the sake of the meter, a comment which implies that pronunciations with /ob.ji/ and /sub.ji/ were not universally used for derivatives of iacio during the second century, and may have been simplified in normal speech to /o.bi/ and /su.bi/ for for many speakers of that time.

There is less evidence about the Classical Latin pronunciation of the nominative singular form obex as the word was rarely used in this form.

Noun

??bex m or f (genitive ??bicis); third declension

1. bolt, bar; barrier, wall
   • Publius Vergilius Maro, Georgica, 2.1

     unde tremor terris, qua vi maria alta tumescant / obicibus ruptis rursus que in se ipsa residant

2. hindrance, impediment, obstacle

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

• obici?

Descendants

• English: obex
• Portuguese: óbice
• Spanish: óbice

References

• obex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• obex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• obex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• obex in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• obex in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin