Significatio vocis arbor | Babel Free

Definitiones

1. a tree
   declension-3, feminine
2. something made from a tree, of wood
   declension-3, feminine, metonymically
3. the polypus (imagined to have arms like the branches of a tree)
   declension-3, feminine, metonymically

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“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

Gradus CEFR