libanus

See also: Libanus

Latin

Etymology

From a Semitic source - see the Semitic root lbn لبن, meaning "white". See also (Hebrew לְבוֹנָה (l'voná, “frankincense”), Arabic لبان (lubān, “frankincense”)).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ba.nus/, [ˈlʲɪbänʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ba.nus/, [ˈliːbänus]

Adjective

libanus (feminine libana, neuter libanum); first/second-declension adjective

1. Lebanese (of Lebanon)
2. frankincense

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	libanus	libana	libanum		libanī	libanae	libana
genitive	libanī	libanae	libanī		libanōrum	libanārum	libanōrum
dative	libanō	libanae	libanō		libanīs
accusative	libanum	libanam	libanum		libanōs	libanās	libana
ablative	libanō	libanā	libanō		libanīs
vocative	libane	libana	libanum		libanī	libanae	libana

See also

• thūs

References

• “libanus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers