Meaning of carpinus | Babel Free

Definitions

European hornbeam (a variety of deciduous tree)

declension-2, feminine

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“Prelum ex carpino atra potissimum facito.”

1934 translation by W. D. Hooper, Harrison Boyd Ash Make the press-beam preferably of black hornbeam.

“Item carpinus, quod est minima ignis et terreni mixtione, aeris autem et umoris summa continetur temperatura, non est fragilis, sed habet utilissimam tractabilitatem. Itaque Graeci, quod ex ea materia iuga iumentis conparant, quod apud eos iuga zyga vocitantur, item zygian eam appellant.”

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“Est et alterum genus arbusti Gallici, quod vocatur rumpotinum. Id desiderat arborem humilem nec frondosam. … Quin etiam cornus et carpinus et ornus non nunquam et salix a plerisque in hoc ipsum disponitur.”

1954 translation by E. S. Forster, Edward H. Heffner There is another kind of plantation found in Gaul, which is called that of dwarf trees. It requires a low and not very leafy tree … Indeed the cornel-tree, the horn-beam and sometimes the mountain-ash and the willow are planted by most people to this very end

“Acer eiusdem fere amplitudinis, operum elegantia ac subtilitate citro secundum. plura eius genera: album, quod praecipui candoris, vocatur Gallicum in transpadana Italia transque Alpes nascens; alterum genus crispo macularum discursu, qui cum excellentior fuit, a similitudine caudae pavonum nomen accepit, in Histria Raetiaque praecipuum; e viliore genere crassivenium vocatur. Graeci situ discernunt, campestre enim candidum esse nec crispum — quod glinon vocant —, montanum vero crispius duriusque, etiamnunc e mascula crispius ad lautiora opera, tertium genus zygian rubentem, fissili ligno, cortice livido, scabro. hoc alii generis proprii esse malunt et Latine carpinum appellant.”

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“Nunc celeberrimis arborum dictis quaedam in universum de cunctis indicanda sunt. montes amant cedrus, larix, taeda et ceterae, e quibus resina gignitur, item aquifolia, buxus, ilex, iuniperus, terebinthus, populus, ornus, carpinus. est in Appennino et frutex, qui vocatur cotinus, ad linamenta modo conchylii colore insignis. montes et valles diligit abies, robur, castaneae, tilia, ilex, cornus. aquosis montibus gaudent acer, fraxinus, sorbus, tilia, cerasus. non temere in montibus visae sunt prunus, punicae, oleastri, iuglans, mori, sabuci. descendunt et in plana cornus, corylus, quercus, ornus, acer, fraxinus, fagus, carpinus. subeunt et in montuosa ulmus, malus, pirus, laurus, myrtus, sanguinei frutices, ilex tinguendisque vestibus nascentes genistae. gaudet frigidis sorbus, sed magis etiam betulla.”

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“Ilex item et oleaster et olea atque castanea, carpinus, populus. Haec et crispa aceris modo—si ulla materies idonea esset ramis saepe deputatis: castratio illa est adimitque vires. De cetero plerisque horum, sed utique robori, tanta duritia ut terebrari nisi madefactum non queat et ne sic quidem adactus avelli clavus.”

1945 translation by H. Rackham There are also the holm-oak, the wild and cultivated olive, the chestnut, the hornbeam and the poplar. The last is also mottled like the maple—if only any timber could be any good when the branches of the tree are frequently lopped: this amounts to gelding the tree, and takes away all its strength. For the rest, most of these trees, but especially the hard oak, are so hard that it is not possible to bore a hole in the wood until it has been soaked in water, and even then when a nail has been driven right into it it cannot be pulled out.

“Est ăbĭēs, pīnus, buxus, vĭrĭdisquĕ cŭpressus, Nāscĭtŭr hic quercus, rōbŏră, taedă, lărix; Est sŭbĕr, est cerrus, fāgus, quīn carpĭnŭs, īlex,”

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