Nabataeus

Latin

See also: Nabataei, Nabataea, Nabataean, and Ναβαταῖος

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ναβαταῖος (Nabataîos), which was borrowed from Nabataean Aramaic 𐢕𐢃𐢋𐢈 (nbṭw). Possibly cognate with Arabic النبطي (an-Nabaṭī, “Nabataean, Nabaṭ”), Arabic أَنْبَاط (ʔanbāṭ), and Hebrew נבטים (nabaṭim, “Nabataeans”), and Hebrew נבטית (nabaṭit, “Nabataean (adj.)”), all of which might be ultimately derived from the same Semitic root, perhaps Proto-Semitic *nabat-, possibly cognate with Akkadian nabāṭu ("to shine brightly").

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Nabataeus m sg (genitive Nabataeī); second declension

  1. (demonym) Nabataean, one of the Nabataeans, ancient inhabitants of Nabataea, a region of Arabia that covers parts of northern Arabia and the Southern Levant, lying between Arabia and Syria, and stretching from the Euphrates river to the Red Sea. During the Hellenistic Period, the Nabataeans were involved in a nexus of trade routes reaching as far as Italy to the west and India to the east, which centered at their city of Petra in what is now Western Jordan near the Negev Desert from before 310 BCE until the Roman conquest in 106 CE.
  2. (historical) Any of a group of people who once lived around modern Jordan.

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Nabataeus
genitive Nabataeī
dative Nabataeō
accusative Nabataeum
ablative Nabataeō
vocative Nabataee

Adjective

Nabataeus (feminine Nabataea, neuter Nabataeum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. Relating to the Nabataean people, their kings, art, architecture, religion, language, or script.
  2. Eastern, Arabian, oriental (as a general term in Medieval Latin).

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative Nabataeus Nabataea Nabataeum Nabataeī Nabataeae Nabataea
genitive Nabataeī Nabataeae Nabataeī Nabataeōrum Nabataeārum Nabataeōrum
dative Nabataeō Nabataeae Nabataeō Nabataeīs
accusative Nabataeum Nabataeam Nabataeum Nabataeōs Nabataeās Nabataea
ablative Nabataeō Nabataeā Nabataeō Nabataeīs
vocative Nabataee Nabataea Nabataeum Nabataeī Nabataeae Nabataea

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