arbor

English

Alternative forms

• arbour (Chiefly British)

Etymology

From Latin arbor (“tree”)

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)bə(r)

Noun

arbor (plural arbors or arbores)

1. A shady sitting place, usually in a park or garden, and usually surrounded by climbing shrubs or vines and other vegetation.
2. An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
3. A bar for supporting cutting tools.
4. A spindle of a wheel.
5. A grove of trees.

Related terms

arboreal arbor vitae

Translations

a shady place for sitting

Esperanto: laŭbo (eo) Finnish: vilpola (fi)

Russian: беседка (ru) f. Spanish: cenado (es) m., pérgola (es) f.

a grove of trees

Esperanto: laŭbo (eo)

Anagrams

• borra

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Latin

arbor (a tree)

Alternative forms

• arbōs

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈar.bor/

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Noun

arbor (genitive arboris); f, third declension

1. a tree
   • 29-19 BC — Virgil, Aeneis, book X

     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.

2. mast (of a ship)
3. javelin, shaft of a javelin
4. a gallows
5. vocative singular of arbor

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	arbor	arborēs
genitive	arboris	arborum
dative	arborī	arboribus
accusative	arborem	arborēs
ablative	arbore	arboribus
vocative	arbor	arborēs

Synonyms

• (mast of a ship): mālus
• (javelin): iaculum, pīlum

Derived terms

arborārius arborātor arborēscō

arborētum arboreus / arborius arbuscula

Related terms

arbuscula arbustīvus arbustō

arbustum arbustus arbutus

Descendants

Aromanian: arbure Campidanese Sardinian: àrburi Catalan: arbre Dalmatian: yuarbul Esperanto: arbo French: arbre Friulian: arbul Galician: árbore Ido: arboro Interlingua: arbore Istriot: àrbaro

Italian: albero Logudorese Sardinian: àrbure, àrvure Novial: arbre Portuguese: árvore Romanian: arbore Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ја̑рбол Roman: jȃrbol Sicilian: àrbulu Spanish: árbol

See also

• pōmus
• silva

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Romanian

Noun

arbor m. (plural arbori)

1. Alternative form of arbore.