The story
- Latin · learned borrowing fromhebes
- English todayhebete
Learned borrowing from Latin hebes, hebetis (“dull, stupid”), from hebere (“to be dull”).
Words from the same roots
Latinhebes all →
hebe-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
hebete
Today it means: unintelligent; stupid. Full definition →
Latin hebes