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arbor

EnglishEdit

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  • Rhymes: -ɑː(r)bə(r)

Etymology 1Edit

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”).

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NounEdit

arbor (plural arbors or arbores)

  1. A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.
  2. A grove of trees.
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Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from French arbre (“tree, axis”), spelling influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”).

NounEdit

arbor (plural arbors or arbores)

  1. An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
  2. A bar for supporting cutting tools.
  3. A spindle of a wheel.
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LatinEdit

 
arbor (a tree)

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EtymologyEdit

By rhotacism from Old Latin arbōs, from Proto-Italic *arðōs, cognate with arduus (“high”): the meaning is "high plant"; the Indo-European /dʰ/ was shifted to /b/. From the Proto-Indo-European *h₃erdʰ- (“high, to grow”).

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NounEdit

arbor f (genitive arboris); third declension

  1. a tree
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 10:
      Interea genitor Tiberini ad fluminis undam / uulnera siccabat lymphis corpusque leuabat / arboris acclinis trunco
      Meantime, his father at Tiber's flowing stream bathed his wounds in the clear water and his body leant against the trunk of a tree.
    felix arbor ― a fruit-bearing tree
    arbores serere ― to plant trees
    (specifically with the genitive of the species)
    arbor alni ― an alder tree
    arbores ficorum ― fig trees
  2. (metonymically) something made from a tree, of wood
    arbore mali ― the mast (of a ship)
    centenaque arbore fluctum verberat adsurgens ― an oar
    Pelias arbor ― Pelias's ship, the ship Argo
    (please add the primary text of this usage example) ― the shaft of a javelin, a javelin
    (please add the primary text of this usage example) ― the lever or bar of a press, press-beam
    (euphemistic)
    arbor infelix ― a gallows, gibbet
  3. (metonymically) the polypus (imagined to have arms like the branches of a tree)
  4. vocative singular of arbor

DeclensionEdit

  • A poetic nominative arbōs is often found. Sextus Pompeius Festus documents archaic (Old Latin) variants arbosem, arboses.

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative arbor arborēs
Genitive arboris arborum
Dative arborī arboribus
Accusative arborem arborēs
Ablative arbore arboribus
Vocative arbor arborēs

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ReferencesEdit

  • 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, 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

Old SpanishEdit

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EtymologyEdit

From Latin arbor, arborem, from Old Latin arbōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erdʰ- (“high, to grow”).

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arbor m (plural arbores)

  1. tree
    • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 1v. b.
      ally delát ebró. es mót mãbre. e ouo y grát arbor. e fue enzina. ala rayz daq́l 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 seńas 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.
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RomanianEdit

NounEdit

arbor m (plural arbori)

  1. Alternative form of arbore
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