ephebus

ephebus (plural ephebi)

1. Synonym of ephebe

• ephoebus (nonstandard)

From Ancient Greek ἔφηβος (éphēbos, “adolescent”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eˈpʰeː.bus/, [ɛˈpʰeːbʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈfe.bus/, [eˈfɛːbus]

ephēbus m (genitive ephēbī); second declension

1. a male Greek youth
2. youth (aged about eighteen to twenty years)

Second-declension noun.

• English: ephebe
• French: éphèbe
• Spanish: efebo

• “ephebus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ephebus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ephebus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “ephebus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin