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Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
arbōs f (genitive arboris); third declension
- (poetic) Alternative form of arbor (“tree”)
c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE,
Virgil,
Georgics 2.66:
- Plantīs et dūrae corylī nāscuntur et ingēns / fraxinus Herculeaeque arbōs umbrōsa corōnae, / Chāoniīque patris glandēs.
- From seedlings are born both hard hazels and the large ash-tree, the shade-giving tree of Hercules' crown, acorns of the Chaonian progenitor.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
References
- “arbos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “arbos”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- arbos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.