Difference between revisions of "Arbor"

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English

Noun

1. A shady sitting place, usually in a park or garden, and usually surrounded by climbing shrubs or vines and other vegetation.
2. An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
3. A bar for supporting cutting tools.
4. A spindle of a wheel.
5. A grove of trees.

Adjectives for Arbor

rustic; flowering; sequestered; private;moving; gigantic; latticed; conical; bowery; sultry.

Thesaurus

alcove; axis; axle; axle bar; axle shaft; axle spindle; axle-tree; belvedere; bower; casino; conservatory; distaff; fulcrum; gazebo; gimbal; glasshouse; greenhouse; gudgeon; hinge; hingle; hub; kiosk; lathhouse; mandrel; nave; oarlock; pergola; pin; pintle; pivot; pole; radiant; retreat; rowlock; spindle; summerhouse; swivel; trunnion

Alternative forms

• arbour (Chiefly British)

Etymology

From Latin arbor (“tree”)

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)bə(r)

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• borra

Latin

Alternative forms

• arbōs

Etymology

By rhotacism from Old Latin arbōs, arbōsis, cognate with arduus (“high”): the meaning is "high plant"; the Indo-European /dh/ was shifted to /b/. From the Proto-Indo-European *er(ə)dʰ- (“high, to grow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /ˈar.bor/

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Noun

arbor (genitive arboris); f, third declension

1. a tree
   • 29-19 BC — Virgil, Aeneis, book X

     Interea genitor Tiberini ad fluminis undam / uulnera siccabat lymphis corpusque leuabat / arboris acclinis trunco

     Meantime, his father at Tiber's flowing stream bathed his wounds in the clear water and his body leant against the trunk of a tree.

2. mast (of a ship)
3. javelin, shaft of a javelin
4. a gallows
5. vocative singular of arbor

Inflection

Synonyms

• (mast of a ship): mālus
• (javelin): iaculum, pīlum

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Descendants

See also

• pōmus
• silva

Romanian

Noun

Arbor m. (plural arbori)

1. Alternative form of arbore.