Meaning of arbor | Babel Free
[ˈar.bɔr]Definitions
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a tree declension-3, feminine
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something made from a tree, of wood declension-3, feminine, metonymically
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the polypus (imagined to have arms like the branches of a tree) declension-3, feminine, metonymically
Examples
“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.
“felix arbor”
a fruit-bearing tree
“arbores serere”
to plant trees
“arbor alni”
an alder tree
“arbores ficorum”
fig trees
“arbore mali”
the mast (of a ship)
“centenaque arbore fluctum verberat adsurgens”
an oar
“Pelias arbor”
Pelias's ship, the ship Argo
“(euphemistic)”
“arbor infelix”
a gallows, gibbet
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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