viburnum

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Borrowed from Latin vīburnum.

• IPA^(key): /vɪˈbɜː(ɹ)nəm/, /vaɪˈbɜː(ɹ)nəm/

viburnum (plural viburnums or (rare) viburna)

1. Any of many shrubs and trees, of the genus Viburnum, native to the Northern Hemisphere that have showy clusters of flowers.
   • 1797, William [Fordyce] Mavor, “Travels in Japan and Other Countries, by Charles Peter Thunberg, […]”, in Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries, from the Time of Columbus to the Present Period, volume XV, London: […] E[lizabeth] Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 218:

     Thus he diſcovered two or three kinds of oaks, a few viburna, and ſome trees of the maple genus, with a wild ſort of Japaneſe pear.

   • 1927 January, E. Gérardin, “About the So-Called Musky Odours in the Three Kingdoms of Nature”, in La Parfumerie moderne : revue scientifique et de défense professionnelle, 20th year, number 1 (overall work in French), Lyon: Publications Pierre Argence, →OCLC, page 88, column 1:

     Adowa moschatellina. — Although it quite differs from the elder-trees, viburna and honey-suckles as far as the general appearance is concerned, says Siclain, it occurs in the neighbourhood of these plants.

   • 1980, Comparative Civilizations Bulletin‎^[1], volume 9, Dayton, Oh.: International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     But such knowledge is simply ungermane to aesthetics. When one studies the biochemistry of plants, one may afterwards be more tolerant in one’s taste toward thornbushes and dandelions (for they too are wonderfully evolved) but still aesthetically prefer viburna and hyacinths for very good reasons that have nothing to do with botanical science.

• arrowwood

• vīburnus, vīburna

Unknown, possibly Etruscan. Compare laburnum, alaternus, basterna, lacerna, santerna, pincerna, clarnus, all strongly suspected to be from Etruscan or a related language, although the sound sequence also occurs in words trusted to be native like sturnus, spinturnīx, cōturnīx.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wiːˈbʊr.nũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [viˈbur.num]

vīburnum n (genitive vīburnī); second declension

1. viburnum

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• Catalan: viorn
• French: viorne
• Italian: viburno

• viburnum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “viburnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press