cembra
English
Pinus cembra
Wikispecies
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin cembra.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sĕmʹbrə, IPA(key): /ˈsɛmbɹə/
Noun
cembra (plural cembras)
- The Swiss pine, Pinus cembra.
- 1924, Katharine Symonds Furse, Ski-running:
- Among the cembra trees in the Engadine the snow may be sprinkled with the nuts out of the cones.
- 1884, John Addington Symonds, New Italian sketches:
- Then comes the descent, with its forests of larch and cembra, golden and dark green upon a ground of grey, and in front the serried shafts of the Bernina, and here and there a glimpse of emerald lake at turnings of the road.
- 1881, Alexander Leslie, The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II:
- It consists principally of pines: the cembra pine (Pinus Cembra, L.), valued for its seeds, enormous larches, the nearly awl-formed Siberian pine (Pinus sibirica, LEDEB.), the fir (Pinus obovata, TURCZ.), and scattered trees of the common pine (Pinus sylvestris, L.)
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Synonyms
- (Pinus cembra): Swiss stone pine, arolla pine
Translations
Pinus cembra — see Swiss pine
Anagrams
- Cambre, camber, cambre, cambré
Italian
Alternative forms
- cembia, cimbra, cimbia
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish cimbra, derived from cimbrar (“to rock; to sway”), from Vulgar Latin *cīnctūrāre, derived from Classical Latin cīnctūra (“belt”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃem.bra/
- Rhymes: -embra
- Hyphenation: cém‧bra
Noun
cembra f (plural cembre)
- (architecture) a type of molding
Further reading
- cembra in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
- cambre, crambe
Latin
Etymology
Alteration of the dialectal German Zember.
Pronunciation
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃem.bra/, [ˈt͡ʃɛmbrä]
Noun
cembra f (genitive cembrae); first declension
- (New Latin) Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra)
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:cembra.
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | cembra | cembrae |
| Genitive | cembrae | cembrārum |
| Dative | cembrae | cembrīs |
| Accusative | cembram | cembrās |
| Ablative | cembrā | cembrīs |
| Vocative | cembra | cembrae |
Derived terms
- cembroīdēs
Descendants
- Translingual: Hoya cembrae, Ips cembrae, Pinus cembra
- English: cembra