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Ebenus sine ebanus lignum cuius interius nigrum solidum pulchrum aptum ocularibus medicis et est nomen grecum arabice vero vocatur abnus.
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Ebenus sive ebanus lignum cuius interius nigrum solidum pulchrum aptum ocularibus medicis et est nomen grecum arabice vero vocatur abnus.
  
 
Ebenus or ebanus is a wood whose interior part is black, solid and beautiful and suitable for eye medicines. And it is also the Greek word for it, but in Arabic it is abnus.
 
Ebenus or ebanus is a wood whose interior part is black, solid and beautiful and suitable for eye medicines. And it is also the Greek word for it, but in Arabic it is abnus.

Revision as of 17:23, 27 August 2011

Ebenus sive ebanus lignum cuius interius nigrum solidum pulchrum aptum ocularibus medicis et est nomen grecum arabice vero vocatur abnus.

Ebenus or ebanus is a wood whose interior part is black, solid and beautiful and suitable for eye medicines. And it is also the Greek word for it, but in Arabic it is abnus.


Commentary:

Latin (h)ebenus “the ebon-tree, ebony” is taken over from Greek ἔβενος/ ἕβενος /(h)ébenos/ id. The later form ebanus, according to Battisti/ Alessio, p.1407, is first recorded in the XIII century and is an Italian innovation: cf. èbano … (é mutuato dall’it.).); Simon is indeed a witness to the correctness of this statement. From Italy it gained wider currency in medieval Latin and was adopted by some Iberian languages, cf. Modern Spanish/Portuguese: ébano.

Wehr: ﺍﺑﻧﻮﺱ /ʔabnūs/ “ebony”.

Battisti, Carlo & Alessio, Giovanni (1968) “Dizionario Etimologico Italiano”. Volume secondo, Ca-Fa. Firenze.

See also: Abnus