English

Noun

suber ‎(uncountable)

1. (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).

Derived terms

Anagrams

• burse, rebus, rubes

1. ↑ American Journal of Philology, Volume 71, 1950

Latin

Etymology

Apparently from the same Proto-Indo-European root as Old High German swigen ‎(“to be silent”), possibly a reference to cork being stripped without harming the tree.^[1]

Noun

sūber m ‎(genitive sūberis); third declension

1. cork oak, cork-tree
2. cork

Declension

Third declension.

Descendants

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “suber”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

1. ↑ American Journal of Philology, Volume 71, 1950