Ephebe Definition

ĕfēb, ĭ-fēb
ephebes, ephebi
noun
A young man; specif., an ephebus.
Webster's New World
A youth between 18 and 20 years of age in ancient Greece.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Ephebe

Noun

Singular:
ephebe
Plural:
ephebes, ephebi

Origin of Ephebe

  • Latin ephēbus from Greek ephēbos ep-, epi- epi- hēbē early manhood

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Via Latin, from Greek εφηβος (επι- + ήβη ‘early manhood’).

    From Wiktionary

Ephebe Sentence Examples

  • In 1865 De Bary suggested the possibility that such lichens as Collema, Ephebe, &c., arose as a result of the attack of parasitic Ascomycetes upon the algae, Nostoc, Chroococcus, &c. In 1867 the observations of Famintzin and Baranetzky showed that the gonidia, in certain cases, were able to live outside the lichen-thallus, and in the case of Physcia, Evernia and Cladonia were able to form zoospores.

  • A circular building identified (bv Svoronos) as the Attic mint in the Peloponnesian War, was cleared, and a fine archaic relief of an ephebe crowning himself was discovered.

  • Ephebe pubescens) the form of thallus is the form of the filamentous alga which is merely surrounded by the fungal hyphae (fig.

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