arbor

Meaning

1. (declension-3, feminine) a tree
2. (declension-3, feminine, metonymically) something made from a tree, of wood
3. (declension-3, feminine, metonymically) the polypus (imagined to have arms like the branches of a tree)

Concepts

tree

🌳

gallows

mast

gibbet

wood

🪵

Synonyms

patibulum

gabalus

malus

Translations

arbre

🌳

Baum

🌳

albero

🌳

árbol

🌳

árvore

🌳

boom

🌳

arbre

🌳

ağaç

🌳

δέντρο

شجرة

🌳

δένδρο

arbre

dar

🌳

àlbero

Pronounced as (IPA)

[ˈar.bɔr]

Etymology

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”).