sorbus

See also: Sorbus

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

sorbus (plural sorbuses)

(botany) Any plant of the genus Sorbus.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈsorbus]
Rhymes: -orbus
Hyphenation: sor‧bus

Verb

sorbus

conditional of sorbi

Latin

Etymology

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

sorbus f (genitive sorbī); second declension

sorb; service tree; Sorbus domestica

Declension

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

sorbum

Descendants

→ 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
  - Middle English: serve, serves pl
    - English: service
      - ⇒ service tree, serviceberry
- Old French: *sorba
  - Middle French: sorbe
    - → English: sorb
      - ⇒ sorb apple
    - French: sorbe
- 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”)
  - Middle French: sorbier
    - French: sorbier
  - Galician: sorbeira (“sorb; wild service tree; rowan; gooseberry”)
  - Portuguese: sorveira (“rowan”)

References

^ 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.

[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

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