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LNS

hibrida, hibridae

(hybrida, hybridae)

(ibrida, ibridae)

ὑβρίζω, ὕβρις, most prob. kindred with ὑβρίζω, ὕβρις, qs. unbridled, lawless, unnatural; hence

noun (c., 1^st declension)

a mongrel, hybrid
one born of a Roman father and a foreign mother, of a freeman and a slave

Abbreviations

hibrida or hybrida (ibr-), ae, comm. most prob. kindred with ὑβρίζω, ὕβρις, qs. unbridled, lawless, unnatural; hence, of animals produced from two different species, a mongrel, hybrid. Lit.: in nullo genere aeque facilis mixtura cum fero (quam in suibus), qualiter natos antiqui hybridas vocabant ceu semiferos, Plin. 8, 53, 79, § 213.

— Transf., of persons, one born of a Roman father and a foreign mother, or of a freeman and a slave: ibique postea ex hybridis, libertinis servisque conscripserat, Auct. B. Afr. 19, 4: hybrida quo pacto sit Persius ultus, Hor. S. 1, 7, 2; Suet. Aug. 19; Mart. 6, 39, 20; 8, 22: Q. Varius propter obscurum jus civitatis Hibrida cognominatus, Val. Max. 8, 6, 4.