arbustum

Latin

Etymology

From arbor (“tree”) +‎ -tum (“adjective-forming suffix”). Cf. with the later arborētum via rebracketing.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /arˈbus.tum/, [ärˈbʊs̠t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /arˈbus.tum/, [ärˈbust̪um]

Noun

arbustum n (genitive arbustī); second declension

1. A plantation, vineyard planted with trees, orchard.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	arbustum	arbusta
Genitive	arbustī	arbustōrum
Dative	arbustō	arbustīs
Accusative	arbustum	arbusta
Ablative	arbustō	arbustīs
Vocative	arbustum	arbusta

Derived terms

• arbustīvus
• arbustō

Related terms

Related terms

• arbor
• arborārius
• arborātor
• arborēscō
• arborētum
• arboreus
• arbuscula
• arbustus
• arbuteus
• arbutum
• arbutus

Descendants

• Aragonese: arbuzo
• Asturian: arbustu
• Catalan: arbust
• English: arbust
• French: arbuste
• Galician: albustre, arbusto
• Italian: arbusto
• Portuguese: arbusto
• Romanian: arbust
• Spanish: arbusto

References

• “arbustum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “arbustum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• arbustum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• arbustum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.