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[…] Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flame-like as theirs[.]
from a Mediterranean substrate word of the form *lapa or *laba “rock” (Latin lapis), in reference to the terrain where the plant grows;
if the first element is Latin (through folk etymology or otherwise), this might be labrum(“a lip”) or lābor(“to glide down”) + -urnus depending on the length of the vowel. For the former derivation compare Old Englishsmǣre(“lip(s)”), Danishsmære(“clover”), Icelandicsmæra(“bermuda buttercup”).
^ Gertraud Breyer (1993) Etruskisches Sprachgut im Lateinischen unter Ausschluss des spezifisch onomastischen Bereiches (in German), Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 405
^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938–1954) “liburnum”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter
