arbos
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈar.boːs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈar.bos]
- Attested with a long -ō- in its nominative in Virgil (see quotation).
Noun
arbōs f (genitive arboris); third declension
- (poetic) alternative form of arbor (“tree”)
- c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 2.66:
- Plantīs et dūrae corylī nāscuntur et ingēns / fraxinus Herculeaeque arbōs umbrōsa corōnae, / Chāoniīque patris glandēs.
- From seedlings are born both hard hazels and the large ash-tree, the shade-giving tree of Hercules' crown, acorns of the Chaonian progenitor.
- Plantīs et dūrae corylī nāscuntur et ingēns / fraxinus Herculeaeque arbōs umbrōsa corōnae, / Chāoniīque patris glandēs.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | arbōs | arborēs |
| genitive | arboris | arborum |
| dative | arborī | arboribus |
| accusative | arborem | arborēs |
| ablative | arbore | arboribus |
| vocative | arbōs | arborēs |
References
- “arbos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “arbos”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- arbos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.