suber
See also: Suber
English
Etymology
Noun
suber (uncountable)
- (dated, technical) Cork, or the corresponding layer of woody tissue below the epidermis of a plant.
- 1869, Louis Figuier, The Vegetable World, page 39:
- In many trees the suber is very slightly developed. But this is not the case with the Cork-oak (Quercus suber).
Derived terms
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Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Apparently from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Old High German swigen (“to be silent”), possibly a reference to cork being stripped without harming the tree.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈsuː.ber/, [ˈs̠uːbɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsu.ber/, [ˈsuːber]
Noun
sūber n (genitive sūberis); third declension
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | sūber | sūbera |
Genitive | sūberis | sūberum |
Dative | sūberī | sūberibus |
Accusative | sūber | sūbera |
Ablative | sūbere | sūberibus |
Vocative | sūber | sūbera |
Descendants
References
- “suber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “suber”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- suber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ American Journal of Philology, Volume 71, 1950
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