Noun: ebony
| Singular | ebony |
| Plural | ebonies |
Sample Sentences
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“You live up the road past the ebony tree, right?” he asked, looking past me. [2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 51:]
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Near-synonyms: onyx, raven
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At dawn the hunters were off. There were fifty sleek, black warriors, and in their midst, lithe and active as a young forest god, strode Tarzan of the Apes, his brown skin contrasting oddly with the ebony of his companions. Except for color he was one of them. [1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 130:]
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Ebony and ivory / Live together in perfect harmony / Side by side on my piano keyboard / Oh lord, why don't we? [1982, Paul McCartney, “Ebony and Ivory”, in Tug of War, performed by Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder:]
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Tony had gone into the storage room and gotten two more standing lamps, one placed near the ebonies and ivories. [2016, Peter Wendt, Nikki Magee, Lulu.com, page 52:]
Nouns inflected like ebony
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Egyptian hbnjbor.
3. Ancient Greek ἕβενος (hébenos)bor.
4. Latin hebenus
5. Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós
6. Proto-Italic *-ijos
7. Proto-Italic *-ios
8. Old Latin -ios
9. Latin -ius
10. Latin ebeniusder.
11. Middle English ebenif
12. English heben, hebeny
13. English ebony
14. From earlier heben, hebeny, from Middle English ebenif, hebenyf (influenced by Late Latin hebeninus), from Ecclesiastical Latin ebenius (“of ebony”), from Latin hebenus (“ebon tree”), from Ancient Greek ἔβενος (ébenos), from Egyptian hbnj, U13:n-Z4:M3 See: Middle English Nouns '
ebenif', Latin Nouns '
ebenius', Latin Nouns '
hebenus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἔβενος'.