arbuti

English

Etymology

From Latin arbutī.

Noun

arbuti

1. plural of arbutus
   • 1819, Edward Dodwell, A Classical and Topographical Tour Through Greece, During the Years 1801, 1805, and 1806, volume II, London: […] Rodwell and Martin, […], page 112:

     The wild olive, the laurel, the oleander, the agnos, various kinds of arbuti, the yellow jasmine, terebinth, lentiscus, and rosemary, with the myrtle and laburnum, richly decorate the margin of the river, while masses of aromatic plants and flowers exhale their varied perfumes and breathe their luscious odours through the scented air.

   • 1824, Mariana Starke, Information and Directions for Travellers on the Continent, 5th edition, London: John Murray, […], page 290:

     […] on the left of which are steps leading to a pretty Coppice, composed of arbuti, Mediterranean heaths, and other shrubs; […]

   • 1866, Charles R[hoderick] McGrigor, Garibaldi at Home: Notes of a Visit to Caprera, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], pages 202–203:

     The vegetation was more or less made up of arbuti, chestnut trees, vines, olives, and aloes.

   • 1908, F. R. S. Balfour, “Trees of Western America”, in Transactions of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society, volume XXI, Edinburgh: […] the Society. […], page 124:

     It is the land, too, of flowering and berried shrubs, Spirea, Berberris of several kinds (including our well-known B. aquifolium), Ribes, numerous Rubus, Gaultheria shalon, sometimes a tree 20 feet high—the Sal-lal of the Indians,—that most striking of arbuti, the Madroña tree, the lovely western dogwood (Cornus nuttallii), two beautiful elders, one red and one blue-berried (Sambucus arborescens and S. glauca), several Rhamnus, and five great blaeberries or Vaccinium, some red and some blue-berried, but all, as a rule, 6 feet high.

   • 2020, Robin Langstaff-French, editor, Brothers, Lift Your Voices, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 573:

     But they live so much music and art and literature; they have such a peaceful and dignified grace; and their charm grows like a secret glade of arbuti: to the eye there is only the common beauty of green tangle but the scent perfumes the wind and makes the heart grow large and heavy with love.

Ido

Noun

arbuti

1. plural of arbuto

Latin

Noun

arbutī

1. inflection of arbutus:
   1. nominative/vocative plural
   2. genitive singular