arbor

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From Latin arbor (“‘tree’”)

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Singular
arbor

Plural
arbors or arbores

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.

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arbor (a tree)

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By rhotacism from Old Latin arbōs, arbōsis, itself of unknown origin.

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arbor (genitive arbōris); 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

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Number Singular Plural
nominative arbor arbōrēs
genitive arbōris arbōrum
dative arbōrī arbōribus
accusative arbōrem arbōrēs
ablative arbōre arbōribus
vocative arbor arbōrēs

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arbor m., pl. arbori

  1. variant of arbore.
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