hebes – Latin adjective declension

Latin adjective forms of hebes

Adjective: hebes
Hyphenation:
Declension: Third

Nominative

Singular masc.hebes
Singular fem.hebes
Singular neut.hebes
Plural masc.hebetēs
Plural fem.hebetēs
Plural neut.hebetia

Genitive

Singular masc.hebetis
Singular fem.hebetis
Singular neut.hebetis
Plural masc.hebetium
Plural fem.hebetium
Plural neut.hebetium

Dative

Singular masc.hebetī
Singular fem.hebetī
Singular neut.hebetī
Plural masc.hebetibus
Plural fem.hebetibus
Plural neut.hebetibus

Accusative

Singular masc.hebetem
Singular fem.hebetem
Singular neut.hebes
Plural masc.hebetīs; hebetēs
Plural fem.hebetīs; hebetēs
Plural neut.hebetia

Ablative

Singular masc.hebetī; hebete
Singular fem.hebetī; hebete
Singular neut.hebetī; hebete
Plural masc.hebetibus
Plural fem.hebetibus
Plural neut.hebetibus

Vocative

Singular masc.hebes
Singular fem.hebes
Singular neut.hebes
Plural masc.hebetēs
Plural fem.hebetēs
Plural neut.hebetia

Comparison

Comparativehebetior
Superlativehebetissimus

Sample Sentences

  • ARTOTRŌGUS. Quid in Cappadociā, ubi tū quīngentōs simul,
  • nī hebes machaera foret, ūnō ictū occīderās?
  • PYRGOPOLINĪCĒS. At peditastellī quia erant, sīvī vīverent. (fifty with a single blow, were the sword not blunt?
  • PYRGOPOLINICES. But because they were foot-soldiers, I suffered them to live.) [c. 206 BCE, Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 1.1.52–54]
  • Tum fuit in pretiō magis aes, aurumque iacēbat
  • propter inūtilitātem hebetī mūcrōne retūsum;
  • nunc iacet aes, aurum in summum successit honōrem.
  • Then was bronze more of worth, and gold was held in no esteem
  • for it uselessness, dull with blunt edge;
  • now bronze is in disgrace, and gold has climbed to the highest honour.
  • c. 95 CE, Quintilianus, Institutio oratoria 2.12.8 (substantivized): (Nevertheless, it must be acknowledged that learning takes away something, just as a file does to rough things or whetstones to blunt things) [c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 5.1273–1275]
  • Hōc sonitū opplētae aurēs hominum obsurduērunt; nec est ūllus hebetior sēnsus in vōbīs, sīcut, ubi Nīlus ad illa, quae Catadūpa nōminantur, praecipitat ex altissimīs montibus, ea gēns, quae illum locum adcolit, propter magnitūdinem sonitūs sēnsū audiendī caret. (Filled with this sound, the ears of humans become deaf, just as, where the Nile rushes down from the highest mountains to those which are called Catadupa, that folk which inhabits that place lacks the sense of hearing because of the magnitude of the sound.) [54 BCE – 51 BCE, Cicero, De re publica 6.18]
  • Īnfēlīx, cui torpet hebes locus ille, puella, (Unhappy girl, whose place unfeeling lays,
  • which man and woman should equally enjoy.) [2 CE, Ovidius, Ars Amatoria 3.799–800]
  • Lūmina restābant, quōrum mē causa latēbat,
  • cum sīc errōres abstulit illa meōs:
  • 'Vel quia purpureīs collucent flōribus agrī,
  • lūmina sunt nostrōs vīsa decēre diēs;
  • vel quia nec flōs est hebetī nec flamma colōre,
  • atque oculōs in sē splendor uterque trahit;
  • vel quia dēliciīs nocturna licentia nostrīs
  • convenit. Ā vērō tertia causa venit.'
  • The lights remained, whose cause escaped me,
  • when she removed my uncertainties thus:
  • 'Either because the fields shine with purple flowers
  • are lights seen as befitting my days;
  • or because neither is a flower or a flame is of dull colour,
  • and each splendor draws the eyes to itself; (revels. From the truth comes the third cause.) [8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 5.361–368]
  • Inerticula tamen nigra, quam quīdam Graecī amargion appellant, potest in secundā quasi tribū esse, quod et bonī vīnī est et innoxia, quoniam nōmen trāxit, quod iners habētur in tentandīs nervīs, quamvīs gustū nōn sit hebes. (However the black inerticula, which some Greeks call amargios, can be in the second, so to speak, tribe, because it makes for good wine and is unintoxicating, whence it also gets its name, for it's considered 'inert' in stretching the sinews, although it's not dull in taste.) [4 CE – c. 70 CE, Columella, De Re Rustica 3.2.24]
  • Aliī rūrsus subeunt autumnō: tertium genus līliī, et crocum et orsinī utraque genera, ūnum hebes, alterum odōrātum, prīmīs omnia imbribus ēmicantia. (Others go away again in the autumn: the third kind of lily, and both kinds of crocus and orsinus, one without smell, the other parfumed, all disappearing with the first rains.) [77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 21.39.67]

Adjectives inflected like hebes

sollers, hebes, iners, impos, quiēs,

Etymology

From hebeō (“to be blunt or dull”) with a suffix -t- that can also be found in -es (“faring”).

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