suber
See also: Suber
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
suber (uncountable)
- (dated, technical) Cork, or the corresponding layer of woody tissue below the epidermis of a plant.
- 1869, Louis Figuier, The Vegetable World, page 39:
- In many trees the suber is very slightly developed. But this is not the case with the Cork-oak (Quercus suber).
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Noun edit
suber m (uncountable)
Further reading edit
- “suber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Disputed. According to one hypothesis, it is from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Old High German swigen (“to be silent”) and its West Germanic cognates, possibly a reference to cork being stripped without harming the tree.[1] However, an Indo-European etymology for the Germanic set is disputed; see *swīgā.[2] Alternatively, it may be connected with Ancient Greek σῦφαρ (sûphar, “wrinkled skin”), from a third, perhaps substrate source, with an approximate form *sūbʰ-.[3][4]
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsuː.ber/, [ˈs̠uːbɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsu.ber/, [ˈsuːber]
Noun edit
sūber n (genitive sūberis); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | sūber | sūbera |
Genitive | sūberis | sūberum |
Dative | sūberī | sūberibus |
Accusative | sūber | sūbera |
Ablative | sūbere | sūberibus |
Vocative | sūber | sūbera |
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- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
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- Ibero-Romance:
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References edit
- “suber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “suber”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- suber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ American Journal of Philology, Volume 71, 1950
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*swīgēn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 501
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sūber, -ris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 595
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “σῦφαρ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1425–1426
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