[ˈar.bɔr], [ˈar.bor]
OriginBy 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”).
- declension-3, femininea tree
“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
- declension-3, feminine, metonymicallysomething made from a tree, of wood
“arbore mali” — the mast (of a ship)
“centenaque arbore fluctum verberat adsurgens” — an oar
“Pelias arbor” — Pelias's ship, the ship Argo
- declension-3, feminine, metonymicallythe polypus (imagined to have arms like the branches of a tree)
Formsarboris(genitive) · arbor(nominative, singular) · arborēs(nominative, plural) · arboris(genitive, singular) · arborum(genitive, plural) · arborī(dative, singular) · arboribus(dative, plural) · arborem(accusative, singular) · arborēs(accusative, plural) · arbore(ablative, singular) · arboribus(ablative, plural) · arbor(singular, vocative) · arborēs(plural, vocative) · arbōs(alternative)