suber
See also: Suber
English
Etymology
From Latin sūber.
Noun
suber (uncountable)
- (dated, technical) Cork, or the corresponding layer of woody tissue below the epidermis of a plant.
- 1869, Louis Figuier, The Vegetable World, page 39:
- In many trees the suber is very slightly developed. But this is not the case with the Cork-oak (Quercus suber).
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Derived terms
Derived terms
- suberic
- suberic acid
- suberin
- suberize, suberization
- suberose
- suberous
Anagrams
- Burse, Reubs, Ruebs, Ubers, buers, bures, burse, erubs, rebus, resub, rubes, urbes
French
Noun
suber m (uncountable)
- suber
Further reading
- “suber”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Etymology
Disputed. According to one hypothesis, it is from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Old High German swigen (“to be silent”) and its West Germanic cognates, possibly a reference to cork being stripped without harming the tree.[1] However, an Indo-European etymology for the Germanic set is disputed; see *swīgā.[2] Alternatively, it may be connected with Ancient Greek σῦφαρ (sûphar, “wrinkled skin”), from a third, perhaps substrate source, with an approximate form *sūbʰ-.[3][4]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsuː.ber/, [ˈs̠uːbɛr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsu.ber/, [ˈsuːber]
Noun
sūber n (genitive sūberis); third declension
- cork oak, cork-tree
- cork
Declension
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | sūber | sūbera |
Genitive | sūberis | sūberum |
Dative | sūberī | sūberibus |
Accusative | sūber | sūbera |
Ablative | sūbere | sūberibus |
Vocative | sūber | sūbera |
Derived terms
- sūbereus
- sūberīnus
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: sughero, suvero
- Neapolitan: surve, survo
- Sicilian: sùvuru, sùvaru
- Padanian:
- Emilian: sùver
- Friulian: sûr
- Venetian: sóvaro, sóaro, suro
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Aragonese: zuro
- Catalan: suro, suiro, súrio, suire, siure
- → Spanish: zuro (or from Aragonese)
- Occitan:
- Languedocien: siure, seure, sieure, siuse
- Provençal: suve, subre, siure
- Vivaro-Alpine: suve, siure
- Ibero-Romance:
- ⇒ Galician: sobreira
- Portuguese: sobro ⇒ sobreiro
- → Leonese: sobreru (Salamanca)
- → Spanish: sobrero
- → Leonese: sobreru (Salamanca)
- Borrowings:
- → Arabic: شُبِر (šubir)
- → English: suber, ⇒ suberose
- → French: suber ⇒ subéreux
- → Romanian: suber
- → Italian: subero
References
- “suber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “suber”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- suber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- American Journal of Philology, Volume 71, 1950
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*swīgēn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 501
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “sūber, -ris”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 595
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “σῦφαρ”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1425–1426
Sardinian
Alternative forms
- super
- supre
- subre
Etymology
From Latin super.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /suber/
Preposition
suber
- on, on top of, above
- Synonym: subra