Translingual

Arbutus unedo

Proper noun

Arbutus f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Ericaceae – the madrones.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids - clades; Ericales - order; Ericaceae - family; Arbutoideae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (subfamily): Arbutus andrachne, Arbutus arizonica, Arbutus canariensis, Arbutus glandulosa, Arbutus menziesii, Arbutus pavarii, Arbutus peninsularis, Arbutus unedo, Arbutus xalapensis (species)

English

fruit of the strawberry tree (Arbutus)

Trailing arbutus

Wikispecies

Noun

arbutus ‎(plural arbutuses)

1. A flowering plant in the genus Arbutus: the strawberry tree.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 10

     Many nights,though autumnal mists were spread around, I pssed under an ilex - many times I have supped on arbutus berries and chestnuts, making a fire, gypsylike, on the ground [...]

2. Epigaea repens, the mayflower, the trailing arbutus.
3. Arbute; the wood of the strawberry tree.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

Related to arbor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.bu.tus/, [ˈar.bʊ.tʊs]

Noun

arbutus m ‎(genitive arbutī); second declension

1. (botany) The strawberry tree.

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• arbuteus
• arbutum

Descendants

• French: arbouse, arbousier
• Mozarabic: yérbato
• Old Spanish: alborco
• Portuguese: êrvedo

References

• arbutus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• arbutus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “arbutus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• arbutus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers