arbre

Inherited from Latin arborem f.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈa.βɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈa.bɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈaɾ.bɾe], [ˈa.bɾe]

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arbre m (plural arbres)

1. tree

• “arbre”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “arbre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Old French arbre, from Latin arbor. See also Catalan arbre, Italian albero, Occitan arbre, Portuguese árvore, Romanian arbore.

• IPA^(key): /aʁbʁ/

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• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): [zab]
• Rhymes: -aʁbʁ

arbre m (plural arbres)

1. tree (plant, diagram, anything in the form of a tree)
2. axle
3. (mechanics) drive shaft

• “arbre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• barre, barré

From Old French arbre.

arbre m (plural arbres)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) tree
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], page 536:

     De la Toussaint à Noué un arbre ne sait pas chu que nou li fait.

     From All Saints' Day to Christmas a tree does not know what you do to it.

• arbre à lupîns (“tree lupin”)
• arbre dé fanmil'ye (“family tree”)
• arbre d'Noué (“Christmas tree”)

• aibre
• aubre (Provençal)
• aure

From Old Occitan arbre, from Latin arborem f. Compare Gascon arbe.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾbɾe/

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arbre m (plural arbres) (Languedoc)

1. tree

From Latin arborem f.

arbre oblique singular, m (oblique plural arbres, nominative singular arbres, nominative plural arbre)

1. tree

• Bourguignon: âbre
• Champenois: âbre
• Franc-Comtois: aîbre
• French: arbre
• Lorrain: âbre
• Norman: arbre
• Picard: abe
• Walloon: åbe

From Latin arborem f.

arbre m (oblique plural arbres, nominative singular arbres, nominative plural arbre)

1. tree
   • c. 1145, Bernard de Ventadour, Lancan vei per mei la landa:

     dels arbres chazer la folha

     from the trees, the leaves were falling

• Occitan: arbre, aibre, aubre (Provençal), aure