sorbus
See also: Sorbus
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsorbus/
- Hyphenation: sor‧bus
- Rhymes: -orbus
Verb
sorbus
- conditional of sorbi
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *sor- / *ser- (“red, reddish-brown”).
Noun
sorbus
- sorb; service tree; Sorbus domestica
Derived terms
- sorbum
Descendants
- Albanian: shurbë
- English: sorb, serviceberry
- Galician: sorbeira
- Italian: sorbo
- Romanian: sorb
- Spanish: suerbo
References
- sorbus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sorbus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette