different between urbs vs curbs

English

Etymology

From Latin.

Noun

urbs (plural urbes)

1. A walled city in Ancient Rome.

Anagrams

• brus, burs, rubs, srub

Latin

Etymology

Of uncertain origin.

• From Proto-Italic *wor?is, from Proto-Indo-European *werb?- (“to enclose”) (compare Umbrian ???????????????????????????? (uerfale, “area for taking auspices”), Hittite [script needed] (warpa-, “enclosure”), Tocharian A warpi (“garden”), Tocharian B werwiye (“garden”)).
• Derivation from Proto-Indo-European *g?órd?os (“city”) (from *g?erd?- (“to enclose”), whence e.g. Hittite [script needed] (gurtas, “citadel”) Sanskrit ??? (g?há, “house”), English yard) has been proposed, but suffers from irregularities: ?horbus would be rather expected.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /urbs/, [?rps?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /urps/, [urps]

Noun

urbs f (genitive urbis); third declension

1. a city, walled town

2. the City, Rome

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

NB: urbis is an alternative nominative plural form.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• urbs in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• urbs in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• urbs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

English

Noun

curbs

1. plural of curb

Anagrams

• scrub