arbutus

arbutus

See also: Arbutus

English

fruit of the strawberry tree (Arbutus)

trailing arbutus (Epigaea repens)

Etymology

From translingual Arbutus, from Latin arbutus.

Noun

arbutus (plural arbutuses)

1. Any flowering plant in the genus Arbutus: the strawberry tree.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 10

     Many nights, though autumnal mists were spread around, I passed under an ilex - many times I have supped on arbutus berries and chestnuts, making a fire, gypsy-like, on the ground […]

2. Epigaea repens, the mayflower, the trailing arbutus.
   • 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds

     Ah, who is he,—on whom young men and maidens look with pitying eye? to whom the old man lifts his hat, and little children cease from their sports as he passes, and quietly slip the innocent daisy, or the sweet-scented arbutus into his hand, which they have culled from the wide commons, where, they have been told, the good Sea-flower loved to stray.

3. Arbute; the wood of the strawberry tree.

Translations

strawberry tree — see strawberry tree

References

• arbutus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Arbutus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Subartu

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Latin

Etymology

From arbor (“tree”) +‎ -tus (“adjective-forming suffix”). Doublet of arbustus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.bu.tus/, [ˈärbʊt̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.bu.tus/, [ˈärbut̪us]

Noun

arbutus f (genitive arbutī); second declension

1. strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo)

   Synonym: unedō

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	arbutus	arbutī
Genitive	arbutī	arbutōrum
Dative	arbutō	arbutīs
Accusative	arbutum	arbutōs
Ablative	arbutō	arbutīs
Vocative	arbute	arbutī

Derived terms

• arbuteus
• arbutum

Descendants

• Galician: érbedo, albedro
• Occitan: arboça, arboç
  • → French: arbouse, arbousier
• Old Spanish: alborco
  • Spanish: aborto, borto
• Portuguese: êrvedo

References

• “arbutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “arbutus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• arbutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “arbutus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Genaust, Helmut (1996), “Árbutus”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (in German), 3^rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN, page 73a