arbor

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɑːbə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑɹbɚ/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈaːbə/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bə(ɹ)

From Middle English arbour, erbour, from Old French erbier (“field, meadow, kitchen garden”), from erbe (“grass, herb”), from Latin herba (“grass, herb”) (English herb). (Compare Late Latin herbārium, although erbier is possibly an independent formation.) The spelling was influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”).

• arbour (chiefly British)

arbor (plural arbors or arbores)

1. A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.
   • 1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 24:

     Children swung from the branches of the banyan tree, teenagers climbed into the arbours of orchids and gourds into which the abandoned cars had been transformed.

2. A grove of trees.

• arboreal
• arboreous
• arborescent
• arboretum
• arbor vitae
• herb

Borrowed from French arbre (“tree, axis”), spelling influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”).

arbor (plural arbors or arbores)

1. An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
2. A bar for supporting cutting tools.
3. A spindle of a wheel.

• Barro, Brora, borra

From English arbor, from Middle English arbour, erbour, from Old French erbier (“field, meadow, kitchen garden”), from erbe (“grass, herb”), from Latin herba (“grass, herb”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈarbɔr/
• Hyphenation: ar‧bor

arbor (first-person possessive arborku, second-person possessive arbormu, third-person possessive arbornya)

1. arbor: a shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.

• “arbor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• arbōs

By rhotacism from Old Latin arbōs, from Proto-Italic *arðōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erdʰ- (“high; to grow”), meaning "high upright plant". Cognate with arduus (“high”).[1]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.bor/, [ˈärbɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.bor/, [ˈärbor]

arbor f (genitive arboris); third declension

1. a tree
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 10:

     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.

   felix arbor ― a fruit-bearing tree

   arbores serere ― to plant trees

   (specifically with the genitive of the species) arbor alni ― an alder tree

   arbores ficorum ― fig trees

2. (metonymically) something made from a tree, of wood

   arbore mali ― the mast (of a ship)

   Synonym: mālus

   centenaque arbore fluctum verberat adsurgens ― an oar

   Pelias arbor ― Pelias's ship, the ship Argo

   Synonyms: iaculum, pīlum

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   arbor infelix ― a gallows, gibbet

3. (metonymically) the polypus (imagined to have arms like the branches of a tree)

• A poetic nominative arbōs is often found. Sextus Pompeius Festus documents archaic (Old Latin) variants arbosem, arboses.
• A rare locative singular arborī is attested.

Third-declension noun.

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 533: “un albero” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Buchi, Éva, Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008–) “*/ˈarbor-e/”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.

• “arbor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “arbor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• arbor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• arbor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the vegetable kingdom: arbores stirpesque, herbae stirpesque (De Fin. 5. 11. 33)
    
  • the trees are coming into leaf: arbores frondescunt
    
  • to plant trees: arbores serere (De Sen. 7. 24)
    
  • to fell trees: arbores caedere
    

From Proto-Celtic *arawar, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃-.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.vər/

arbor n (genitive arbae, nominative plural arbann)

1. grain
2. (in the plural) crops

• Irish: arbhar
• Manx: arroo
• Scottish Gaelic: arbhar

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “arbar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• arbol

Inherited from Latin arborem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾboɾ/, /ˈaɾbol/

arbor m (plural arbores)

1. tree
   • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 1v. b.

     ally delãt ebrõ. es mõt mãbre. e ouo y grãt arbor. e fue enzina. ala rayz daq̃l arbor estaua abraã.

     There, past Hebron, is the hill Mamre, where there was a great oak tree. Abraham was [sitting] on the root of that tree.

   • Idem, f. 42v. b.

     e crebantaredes todas cibdades en caſtelladas entodos los arbores fermoſos todas las fontanas del agua cerraredes. entodas las buenas señas abatredes […]

     And you shall defeat all cities and fortified towns, and fell all the good trees, and seal all the springs of water and ruin all the good pieces of land.

• Ladino: arvolé, arvol
• Spanish: árbol, árbor
  • → Basque: arbola
  • → Cebuano: arbol
  • → Sicilian: àrbulu, àrvulu

arbor m (plural arbori)

1. Alternative form of arbore

• albor

Backslang of Spanish robar (“to rob; to steal”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔaɾboɾ/ [ˈʔaɾ.boɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾboɾ
• Syllabification: ar‧bor

arbor (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇ᜔ᜊᜓᜇ᜔) (slang, back slang)

1. act of claiming something to be of one's possesion; dibs

   Synonyms: angkin, kuha, kikil

   May mga inumin sa mesa. Arbor ko na yung tsokolate.

   There are food on the table. I call dibs on the chocolate.

   Gusto ko ang pantalon mo ah! Pa-arbor naman niyan!

   I like your pants! Let me own that!

2. (by extension) act of borrowing

   Synonym: hiram

• Zorc, R. David, San Miguel, Rachel (1993) Tagalog Slang Dictionary‎, Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN