suber

From Latin sūber, 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]

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).

• Burse, Ubers, buers, bures, burse, erubs, rebus, resub, rubes, urbes

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]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsuː.ber/, [ˈsuː.bɛr]

sūber n (genitive sūberis); third declension

1. cork oak, cork-tree
2. cork

Third declension.

• 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
• suber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette