sorbus

See also: Sorbus

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsorbus]
• Rhymes: -orbus
• Hyphenation: sor‧bus

Verb

sorbus

1. conditional of sorbi

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sor- / *ser- (“red, reddish-brown”).

Noun

sorbus f (genitive sorbī); second declension

1. sorb; service tree; Sorbus domestica

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sorbus	sorbī
Genitive	sorbī	sorbōrum
Dative	sorbō	sorbīs
Accusative	sorbum	sorbōs
Ablative	sorbō	sorbīs
Vocative	sorbe	sorbī

Derived terms

• sorbum

Descendants

• Albanian: shurbë
• Middle French: sorbier
  • English: sorb, serviceberry
• Galician: sorbeira
• Italian: sorbo
• Romanian: sorb
• Spanish: suerbo

References

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