arbutus

See also: Arbutus

English

fruit of the strawberry tree (Arbutus)

Trailing arbutus

Wikispecies

Etymology

From translingual Arbutus, from Latin arbutus.

Noun

arbutus (plural arbutuses)

1. A flowering plant in the genus Arbutus: the strawberry tree.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 10

     Many nights,though autumnal mists were spread around, I pssed under an ilex - many times I have supped on arbutus berries and chestnuts, making a fire, gypsylike, on the ground [...]

2. , the mayflower, the trailing arbutus.
3. Arbute; the wood of the strawberry tree.

Translations

strawberry tree — see strawberry tree

Anagrams

• Subartu

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Latin

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈar.bu.tus/, [ˈärbʊt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.bu.tus/, [ˈärbut̪us]

Noun

arbutus m (genitive arbutī); second declension

1. strawberry tree

   Synonym: unedō

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	arbutus	arbutī
Genitive	arbutī	arbutōrum
Dative	arbutō	arbutīs
Accusative	arbutum	arbutōs
Ablative	arbutō	arbutīs
Vocative	arbute	arbutī

Derived terms

• arbuteus
• arbutum

Descendants

• Galician: érbedo, albedro
• Mozarabic: yérbato
• Occitan: arboça, arboç
  • → French: arbouse, arbousier
• Old Spanish: alborco
• Portuguese: êrvedo

References

• “arbutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “arbutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• arbutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “arbutus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Genaust, Helmut (1996) “Árbutus”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (in German), 3^rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN, page 73a