laburnum

See also: Laburnum

English

Laburnum anagyroides

Wikispecies

Etymology

Latin laburnum

Noun

laburnum (plural laburnums)

1. Any tree of genus Laburnum. They have bright yellow flowers and are poisonous.
   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray:

     Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flame-like as theirs[.]

   • 1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Collins, 1998, Chapter 11,

     The trees began to come fully alive. The larches and birches were covered with green, the laburnums with gold.

Translations

tree

• Bulgarian: златен дъжд m (zlaten dǎžd)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毒豆 (dúdòu), 金鏈花／金链花, 金链花 (jīnliànhuā), 金急雨, 金急雨 (jīnjíyǔ), 臘腸樹／腊肠树, 腊肠树 (làchángshù)

• Finnish: kultasadepensas, kultasade (fi)
• French: cytise (fr) m, laburnum (fr) m
• German: Goldregen m
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• Italian: maggiociondolo (it) m, laburno m
• Latin: laburnum n
• Polish: złotokap m, złotodeszcz m
• Russian: раки́тник (ru) m (rakítnik), золото́й дождь (ru) m (zolotój doždʹ)
• Venetian: ègano m

Anagrams

• alburnum

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Latin

Etymology

Probably from a Mediterranean substrate language or Etruscan.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /laˈbur.num/, [ɫ̪äˈbʊrnʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /laˈbur.num/, [läˈburnum]

Noun

laburnum n (genitive laburnī); second declension

1. plant of the genus Laburnum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	laburnum	laburna
Genitive	laburnī	laburnōrum
Dative	laburnō	laburnīs
Accusative	laburnum	laburna
Ablative	laburnō	laburnīs
Vocative	laburnum	laburna

References

• “laburnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• laburnum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.