hebreu

From Latin hebraeus.

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• Rhymes: -ɛw

hebreu (feminine hebrea, masculine plural hebreus, feminine plural hebrees)

1. Hebrew

• hebraic

hebreu m (plural hebreus, feminine hebrea)

1. Hebrew person

hebreu m (uncountable)

1. Hebrew language

• hebraisme
• hebraista
• hebraística

• “hebreu” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “hebreu”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “hebreu” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “hebreu” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese ebreo, ebreu (“Hebrew, Jew”), a semi-learned borrowing from Latin hebraeus (-vr- would be expected in an inherited term), from Ancient Greek Ἑβραῖος (Hebraîos), from Hebrew עִבְרִי‎ (“Hebrew”).

• Hyphenation: he‧breu

hebreu m (plural hebreus, feminine hebreia, feminine plural hebreias)

1. Hebrew (person)

• hebraico (Hebrew language)