arbor
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɑːbə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɑɹbɚ/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈaːbə/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bə(ɹ)
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English arbour, erbour, from Old French erbier (“field, meadow, kitchen garden”), from erbe (“grass, herb”), from Latin herba (“grass, herb”) (English herb). (Compare Late Latin herbārium, although erbier is possibly an independent formation.) The spelling was influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”).
Alternative forms edit
- arbour (chiefly British)
Noun edit
arbor (plural arbors or arbores)
- A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.
- 1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 24:
- Children swung from the branches of the banyan tree, teenagers climbed into the arbours of orchids and gourds into which the abandoned cars had been transformed.
- A grove of trees.
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Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from French arbre (“tree, axis”), spelling influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”).
Noun edit
arbor (plural arbors or arbores)
- An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
- A bar for supporting cutting tools.
- A spindle of a wheel.
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Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From English arbor, from Middle English arbour, erbour, from Old French erbier (“field, meadow, kitchen garden”), from erbe (“grass, herb”), from Latin herba (“grass, herb”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
arbor (first-person possessive arborku, second-person possessive arbormu, third-person possessive arbornya)
- arbor: a shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.
Further reading edit
- “arbor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
By rhotacism from Old Latin arbōs, from Proto-Italic *arðōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erdʰ- (“high; to grow”), meaning "high upright plant". Cognate with arduus (“high”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈar.bor/, [ˈärbɔr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈar.bor/, [ˈärbor]
Noun edit
arbor f (genitive arboris); third declension
- a tree
- (metonymically) something made from a tree, of wood
- arbore mali ― the mast (of a ship)
- Synonym: mālus
- centenaque arbore fluctum verberat adsurgens ― an oar
- Pelias arbor ― Pelias's ship, the ship Argo
- Synonyms: iaculum, pīlum
- (euphemistic) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text
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. - arbor infelix ― a gallows, gibbet
- (metonymically) the polypus (imagined to have arms like the branches of a tree)
Declension edit
- A poetic nominative arbōs is often found. Sextus Pompeius Festus documents archaic (Old Latin) variants arbosem, arboses.
- A rare locative singular arborī is attested.
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | arbor | arborēs |
Genitive | arboris | arborum |
Dative | arborī | arboribus |
Accusative | arborem | arborēs |
Ablative | arbore | arboribus |
Vocative | arbor | arborēs |
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- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
References edit
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 533: “un albero” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- Buchi, Éva, Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008–) “*/ˈarbor-e/”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 50
Further reading edit
- “arbor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “arbor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- arbor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- arbor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- the vegetable kingdom: arbores stirpesque, herbae stirpesque (De Fin. 5. 11. 33)
- the trees are coming into leaf: arbores frondescunt
- to plant trees: arbores serere (De Sen. 7. 24)
- to fell trees: arbores caedere
- the vegetable kingdom: arbores stirpesque, herbae stirpesque (De Fin. 5. 11. 33)
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *arawar, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃-.[1]
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Noun edit
arbor n (genitive arbae, nominative plural arbann)
Inflection edit
Neuter n-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | arborN | — | arbanL |
Vocative | arborN | — | arbanL |
Accusative | arborN | — | arbanL |
Genitive | arbae | — | arbanN |
Dative | arbaimL | — | arbanaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
arbor | unchanged | n-arbor |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “arbar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*arawar / *arawen-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 40
Old Spanish edit
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arbor m (plural arbores)
- tree
- c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 1v. b.
- ally delãt ebrõ. es mõt mãbre. e ouo y grãt arbor. e fue enzina. ala rayz daq̃l arbor estaua abraã.
- There, past Hebron, is the hill Mamre, where there was a great oak tree. Abraham was [sitting] on the root of that tree.
- Idem, f. 42v. b.
- e crebantaredes todas cibdades en caſtelladas entodos los arbores fermoſos todas las fontanas del agua cerraredes. entodas las buenas señas abatredes […]
- And you shall defeat all cities and fortified towns, and fell all the good trees, and seal all the springs of water and ruin all the good pieces of land.
- c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 1v. b.
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Romanian edit
Noun edit
arbor m (plural arbori)
- Alternative form of arbore
Tagalog edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Backslang of Spanish robar (“to rob; to steal”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈʔaɾboɾ/, [ˈʔaɾ.boɾ]
- Rhymes: -aɾboɾ
- Syllabification: ar‧bor
Noun edit
arbor (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇ᜔ᜊᜓᜇ᜔) (slang, back slang)
- act of claiming something to be of one's possesion; dibs
- (by extension) act of borrowing
- Synonym: hiram