service tree

Signification (Anglais)

Either of two rare Old World deciduous trees, Sorbus domestica or Sorbus torminalis.

Concepts

cormier

sorbier

sorbe

Sorbus

corbier

sorbier domestique

alisier

sorbus domestica

amélanchier

Synonymes

serviceberry

sorb apple

shadblow

shadbush

rowan

Sorbus domestica

sorb apple tree

Juneberry

beam tree

checker tree

true service tree

mountain ash

whitty pear

rowanberry

sorb

mountain-ash

Sorbus

rowans

whitebeams

service tree fruit

Traductions

Speierling

sorbo domestico

Sorbus domestica

serbal

σουρβιά

sorbus

sorbi

Sorbus

Sperberbaum

δέντρο sorbus domestica

θάμνος shadbush

Sperbe

sorbi selvatici

θάμνος shadblow

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: serves

Hérité de ancien anglais: syrfe

In summary

Properly, the tree that bears sorb fruit, from Middle English serves, plural of serve (“sorb apple, serviceberry”), from Old English syrfe, from Vulgar Latin *sorbea, from Latin sorbus (“service tree”). See sorb.