orobias

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀροβῐ́ᾱς (orobíās).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /oˈro.bi.aːs/, [ɔˈrɔbiäːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈro.bi.as/, [oˈrɔːbiäs]

Noun

orobiās m (genitive orobiae); first declension

1. kind of incense small in grains, resembling the chickpea

Declension

First-declension noun (masculine Greek-type with nominative singular in -ās).

	singular	plural
nominative	orobiās	orobiae
genitive	orobiae	orobiārum
dative	orobiae	orobiīs
accusative	orobiān	orobiās
ablative	orobiā	orobiīs
vocative	orobiā	orobiae

References

• “orobias”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• orobias in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.