cembra

English

Pinus cembra

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin cembra.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sĕmʹbrə, IPA^(key): /ˈsɛmbɹə/

Noun

cembra (plural cembras)

1. The Swiss pine, Pinus cembra.
   • 1924, Katharine Symonds Furse, Ski-running‎^[1]:

     Among the cembra trees in the Engadine the snow may be sprinkled with the nuts out of the cones.

   • 1884, John Addington Symonds, New Italian sketches‎^[2]:

     Then comes the descent, with its forests of larch and cembra, golden and dark green upon a ground of grey, and in front the serried shafts of the Bernina, and here and there a glimpse of emerald lake at turnings of the road.

   • 1881, Alexander Leslie, The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II‎^[3]:

     It consists principally of pines: the cembra pine (Pinus Cembra, L.), valued for its seeds, enormous larches, the nearly awl-formed Siberian pine (Pinus sibirica, LEDEB.), the fir (Pinus obovata, TURCZ.), and scattered trees of the common pine (Pinus sylvestris, L.)

Synonyms

• (Pinus cembra): Swiss stone pine, arolla pine

Translations

Pinus cembra — see Swiss pine

Anagrams

• Cambre, camber, cambre, cambré

Italian

Alternative forms

• cembia, cimbra, cimbia

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish cimbra, derived from cimbrar (“to rock; to sway”), from Vulgar Latin *cīnctūrāre, derived from Classical Latin cīnctūra (“belt”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃem.bra/
• Rhymes: -embra
• Hyphenation: cém‧bra

Noun

cembra f (plural cembre)

1. (architecture) a type of molding

Further reading

• cembra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• cambre, crambe

Latin

Etymology

Alteration of the dialectal German Zember.

Pronunciation

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃem.bra/, [ˈt͡ʃɛmbrä]

Noun

cembra f (genitive cembrae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra)
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:cembra.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cembra	cembrae
Genitive	cembrae	cembrārum
Dative	cembrae	cembrīs
Accusative	cembram	cembrās
Ablative	cembrā	cembrīs
Vocative	cembra	cembrae

Derived terms

• cembroīdēs

Descendants

• Translingual: Hoya cembrae, Ips cembrae, Pinus cembra
• English: cembra