sorbus

See also: Sorbus

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Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsorbus/
Hyphenation: sor‧bus
Rhymes: -orbus

Verb

sorbus

conditional of sorbi

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *sor- / *ser- (“red, reddish-brown”).

Noun

sorbus

sorb; service tree; Sorbus domestica

Derived terms

sorbum

Descendants

Albanian: shurbë
English: sorb, serviceberry
Galician: sorbeira
Italian: sorbo
Romanian: sorb
Spanish: suerbo

References

sorbus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
sorbus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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