sorbus
See also: Sorbus
English
editEtymology
editFrom the genus name.
Noun
editsorbus (plural sorbuses)
Esperanto
editPronunciation
editVerb
editsorbus
- conditional of sorbi
Latin
editEtymology
editUnknown. 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
editsorbus f (genitive sorbī); second declension
Declension
editSecond-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
editDescendants
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.
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