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its urbs, urbis
urbs
Urbs.
City = urbs
Urbs celata.
urbs (gen. urbis)
"Urbe, urbem--urbs, urbis."
Third declension.
Urbs in colle.
The English meaning of the Latin phrase 'urbs in horto' is city in a garden. In the word-by-word translation, the noun 'urbs' means 'city'. The preposition 'in' means 'in'. The noun 'horto' means 'garden'. Moving things around and changing them a bit brings forth the phrase 'hortus in urbe'. This Latin phrase means 'garden in a city'. In the word-by-word translation, the noun 'hortus' means 'garden'. The preposition 'in' means 'in'. The noun 'urbe' means 'city'.
In Latin, the English word "City" would be "Urbs," which could possibly be where we get our modern day English word "Urban" from. The Latin word for the English word "Jewel" would probably be "Gemma," from which we get the English word "Gem." So it might be something like "Urbs de Gemmae." I'm not 100% positive on this, but it's a start! ~Boogie~
Urbs, urbis is the latin word for city. Thus the term "urban".