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Is urbs a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word urbs is a Scrabble US word. The word urbs is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Is urbs a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word urbs is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

U1R1B3S1

Is urbs a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word urbs is a Words With Friends word. The word urbs is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (4 found)

BRUS,BURS,RUBS,URBS,

3-letter words (7 found)

BRU,BUR,BUS,RUB,SUB,SUR,URB,

2-letter words (2 found)

UR,US,

You can make 13 words from urbs according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of urbs

urbs rubs ubrs burs rbus brus ursb rusb usrb surb rsub srub ubsr busr usbr subr bsur sbur rbsu brsu rsbu srbu bsru sbru

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word urbs. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in urbs.

Definitions and meaning of urbs

urbs

Etymology

From Latin urbs.

Noun

urbs (plural urbes)

  1. A walled city in Ancient Rome.

Anagrams

  • Brus, brus, burs, rubs, srub

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain.

  • From Proto-Italic *worβis, from Proto-Indo-European *werbʰ- (“to enclose”) (compare Umbrian 𐌖𐌄𐌓𐌚𐌀𐌋𐌄 (uerfale, “area for taking auspices”), Hittite [script needed] (warpa-, “enclosure”), Tocharian A warpi (“garden”), Tocharian B werwiye (“garden”)).
  • Derivation from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórdʰos (“city”) (from *gʰerdʰ- (“to enclose”), whence e.g. Hittite [script needed] (gurtas, “citadel”) Sanskrit गृह (gṛhá, “house”), English yard) has been proposed, but suffers from irregularities; *horbus would be rather expected.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /urbs/, [ʊrps̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /urbs/, [urbs]

Noun

urbs f (genitive urbis); third declension

  1. a city, walled town
  2. the City, Rome

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Inherited:
    • Old Lombard: orba (“Rome”)
  • Borrowed:
    • → Esperanto: urbo
    • → Ido: urbo
    • → Italian: urbe, Urbe
    • → Portuguese: urbe
    • → Romanian: urbe
    • → Spanish: urbe

References

  • Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “ŭrbs”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 691

Further reading

  • “urbs”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “urbs”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • urbs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.

Source: wiktionary.org