urbe

Learned borrowing from Latin urbem.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈur.be/
• Rhymes: -urbe
• Hyphenation: ùr‧be

urbe f (plural urbi)

1. (literary) city

• bure

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈʊr.bɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈur.be]

urbe

1. ablative singular of urbs

Borrowed from Latin urbem.

• Hyphenation: ur‧be

urbe f (plural urbes)

1. (poetic) city (large settlement)

   Synonym: cidade

• urbano
• urbanização

Borrowed from Latin urbem.

urbe f (uncountable)

1. city

Borrowed from Latin urbem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈuɾbe/ [ˈuɾ.β̞e]
• Rhymes: -uɾbe
• Syllabification: ur‧be

urbe f (plural urbes)

1. metropolis; large city
   • 2019 September 4, “Un mosaico podría aportar nuevos datos sobre el milagro de Jesús de la multiplicación de los panes”, in Clarín‎^[1]:

     Todavía hace falta excavar y limpiar un 20 por ciento restante del mosaico. Ese proceso podrá dar más información sobre los primeros cristianos que habitaron esta antigua urbe, que quedó definitivamente destruida por un terremoto en el año 749.

     The remaining 20 percent of the mosaic still needs to be excavated and cleaned. That process may give more information about the first Christians that inhabited this ancient metropolis, which was permanently destroyed by an earthquake in the year 749.

• “urbe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024