See also: Sorbus

English

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Etymology

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From the genus name.

Noun

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sorbus (plural sorbuses)

  1. (botany) Any plant of the genus Sorbus.

Esperanto

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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sorbus

  1. conditional of sorbi

Latin

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Etymology

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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

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sorbus f (genitive sorbī); second declension

  1. sorb; service tree; Sorbus domestica

Declension

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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

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Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “3. ser-, sor-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 910
  2. ^ 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.