lembus

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek λέμβος (lémbos), perhaps Illyrian in origin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈlem.bus/, [ˈɫ̪ɛmbʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈlem.bus/, [ˈlɛmbus]

Noun

lembus m (genitive lembī); second declension

1. A cutter, yacht; a ship built for speed.
   • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Bacchides 2.3.52:

     is lembus nostrae navi insidias dabat

     That ship was giving our boat an ambush

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lembus	lembī
genitive	lembī	lembōrum
dative	lembō	lembīs
accusative	lembum	lembōs
ablative	lembō	lembīs
vocative	lembe	lembī

Derived terms

• lēnunculus

Descendants

• → Italian: lembo (learned)

References

• “lembus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “lembus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "lembus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• lembus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “lembus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “lembus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin