roble
See also: Roble
English
Noun
roble (plural robles)
- The California white oak (Quercus lobata).
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for roble in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Spanish
Alternative forms
- robre (obsolete)
Etymology
From former robre, from Latin rōbore, singular ablative of rōbur (“a kind of hard oak”), whence also Aragonese robre (“oak”) and Catalan roure (“oak”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈroble/, [ˈroβle]
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Further reading
- “roble” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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