sorbus
See also: Sorbus
English edit
Etymology edit
From the genus name.
Noun edit
sorbus (plural sorbuses)
Esperanto edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
sorbus
- conditional of sorbi
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Unknown. IEW links Russian соробали́на (sorobalína), сорбали́на (sorbalína, “rose hip, blackberry”) and Lithuanian serbentà, serbeñtas (“redcurrant, blackcurrant”) and others (also comparing the verb sir̃bti, sir̃pti (“to ripen”)), reconstructing Proto-Indo-European *ser-, *ser-bʰ- (“red, reddish-brown”).[1] De Vaan maintains that this connection is possible, but adds that the meaning of the root would not be “red”. Instead, these words may be derived from a common non-Indo-European substrate source *sVrb- (“berry”).[2] Probably unrelated to sorbeō (“I drink, suck up, slurp”).
Noun edit
sorbus f (genitive sorbī); second declension
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | sorbus | sorbī |
Genitive | sorbī | sorbōrum |
Dative | sorbō | sorbīs |
Accusative | sorbum | sorbōs |
Ablative | sorbō | sorbīs |
Vocative | sorbe | sorbī |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Translingual: Sorbus
- Italian: sorbo (“tree of the genus Sorbus”)
- Romanian: sorb (“wild service tree”)
- Spanish: suerbo
- Vulgar Latin: *sorbea, *sorba
- → Albanian: shurbë
- Old English: syrfe
- Old French: *sorba
- Galician: sorba
- → Greek: σουρβιά (sourviá)
- → Albanian: survë
- Italian: sorba (“rowan”)
- ⇒ sorbola (“sorb apple, sorb”)
- Old Occitan: sorba
- Portuguese: sorva (“rowan; cow tree”)
- Spanish: serba
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *sorbāria (“tree of the genus Sorbus: service tree, rowan, whitebeam, mountain ash”)
References edit
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “3. ser-, sor-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 910
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sorbus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 576
- “sorbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sorbus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.