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Webster 1913 Edition

Arbor

Ar′bor

,
Noun.
[OE.
herber
,
herbere
, properly a garden of herbs, F.
herbier
, fr. L.
herbarium
. See
Herb
, and cf.
Herbarium
.]
A kind of latticework formed of, or covered with, vines, branches of trees, or other plants, for shade; a bower.
Sir P. Sidney.

Ar′bor

,
Noun.
[Written also
arbour
.]
[L., a tree, a beam.]
1.
(Bot.)
A tree, as distinguished from a shrub.
2.
[Cf. F.
arbre
.]
(Mech.)
(a)
An axle or spindle of a wheel or opinion.
(b)
A mandrel in lathe turning.
Knight.
Arbor Day
,
a day appointed for planting trees and shrubs.
[U.S.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Arbor

'ARBOR

,
Noun.
[L. arbor, a tree, and the primary sense.]
1.
A frame of lattice work, covered with vines, branches of trees or other plants, for shade; a bower.
2.
In botany, a tree, as distinguished from a shrub. The distinction which Linne makes, that a tree springs up with a bud on the stem, and a shrub not, is found not to hold universally; and the tree, in popular understanding, differs from the shrub only in size. Arbor forms the seventh family of vegetables in Linne's system. [See Tree.]
3.
In mechanics, the principal part of a machine, sustaining the rest. Also the axis or spindle of a machine, as of a crane, or windmill.
This in America is called the shaft.

Definition 2025

Arbor

Arbor

Albanian

Proper noun

Arbor m

  1. A male given name
  2. ethnic Albanian
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arbor

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See also: Arbor and árbor

English

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Noun

arbor ‎(plural arbors or arbores)

  1. A shady sitting place, usually in a park or garden, and usually surrounded by climbing shrubs or vines and other vegetation.
  2. A grove of trees.
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Etymology 2

Borrowing from French arbre ‎(“tree, axis”), spelling influenced by Latin arbor ‎(“tree”).

Noun

arbor ‎(plural arbors or arbores)

  1. An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
  2. A bar for supporting cutting tools.
  3. A spindle of a wheel.
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Latin

arbor (a tree)

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Etymology

By rhotacism from Old Latin arbōs, arbōsis, cognate with arduus ‎(“high”): the meaning is "high plant"; the Indo-European /dʰ/ was shifted to /b/. From the Proto-Indo-European *h₂erHdʰ- ‎(“high, to grow”).

Pronunciation

Noun

arbor f ‎(genitive arboris); third declension

  1. a tree
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 10
      Interea genitor Tiberini ad fluminis undam / uulnera siccabat lymphis corpusque leuabat / arboris acclinis trunco
      Meantime, his father at Tiber's flowing stream bathed his wounds in the clear water and his body leant against the trunk of a tree.
  2. mast (of a ship)
  3. javelin, shaft of a javelin
  4. a gallows
  5. vocative singular of arbor

Inflection

Third declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative arbor arborēs
genitive arboris arborum
dative arborī arboribus
accusative arborem arborēs
ablative arbore arboribus
vocative arbor arborēs

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Old Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin arbor, arborem, from Old Latin arbōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erHdʰ- ‎(“high, to grow”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈar.βor]

Noun

arbor m (plural arbores)

  1. tree
    • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 1v. b.
      ally delát ebró. es mót mãbre. e ouo y grát arbor. e fue enzina. ala rayz daq́l arbor estaua abraã.
      There, past Hebron, is the hill Mamre, where there was a great oak tree. Abraham was [sitting] on the root of that tree.
    • Idem, f. 42v. b.
      e crebantaredes todas cibdades en caſtelladas entodos los arbores fermoſos todas las fontanas del agua cerraredes. entodas las buenas seńas abatredes […]
      And you shall defeat all cities and fortified towns, and fell all the good trees, and seal all the springs of water and ruin all the good pieces of land.
Descendants

Romanian

Noun

arbor m ‎(plural arbori)

  1. Alternative form of arbore

Etymology

From Arbi.

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