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5-letter words (2 found)

ARBOR,BARRO,

4-letter words (4 found)

BOAR,BORA,ORRA,ROAR,

3-letter words (14 found)

ABO,ARB,BAO,BAR,BOA,BOR,BRA,BRO,BRR,OAR,OBA,ORA,ORB,ROB,

2-letter words (6 found)

AB,AR,BA,BO,OB,OR,

You can make 26 words from arbor according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of arbor

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Definitions and meaning of arbor

arbor

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɑːbə/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɑɹbɚ/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈaːbə/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English arbour, erbour, from Old French erbier (“field, meadow, kitchen garden”), from erbe (“grass, herb”), from Latin herba (“grass, herb”) (English herb). (Compare Late Latin herbārium, although erbier is possibly an independent formation.) The spelling was influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”).

Alternative forms

  • arbour (chiefly British)

Noun

arbor (plural arbors or arbores)

  1. A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.
  2. A grove of trees.
Derived terms
Related terms
  • arboreal
  • arboreous
  • arborescent
  • arboretum
  • arbor vitae
  • herb
Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French arbre (“tree, axis”), spelling influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”).

Noun

arbor (plural arbors or arbores)

  1. An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
  2. A bar for supporting cutting tools.
  3. A spindle of a wheel.
Derived terms
Translations

Anagrams

  • Barro, Brora, borra

Indonesian

Etymology

From English arbor, from Middle English arbour, erbour, from Old French erbier (“field, meadow, kitchen garden”), from erbe (“grass, herb”), from Latin herba (“grass, herb”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈarbɔr/
  • Hyphenation: ar‧bor

Noun

arbor (first-person possessive arborku, second-person possessive arbormu, third-person possessive arbornya)

  1. arbor: a shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.

Further reading

  • “arbor” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Alternative forms

  • arbōs

Etymology

By rhotacism from Old Latin arbōs, from Proto-Italic *arðōs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃erdʰ- (“high; to grow”), meaning "high upright plant". Cognate with arduus (“high”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈar.bor/, [ˈärbɔr]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈar.bor/, [ˈärbor]

Noun

arbor f (genitive arboris); third declension

  1. a tree
    felix arbor ― a fruit-bearing tree
    arbores serere ― to plant trees
    (specifically with the genitive of the species) arbor alni ― an alder tree
    arbores ficorum ― fig trees
  2. (metonymically) something made from a tree, of wood
    arbore mali ― the mast (of a ship)
    Synonym: mālus
    centenaque arbore fluctum verberat adsurgens ― an oar
    Pelias arbor ― Pelias's ship, the ship Argo
    Synonyms: iaculum, pīlum
    (euphemistic) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
    arbor infelix ― a gallows, gibbet
  3. (metonymically) the polypus (imagined to have arms like the branches of a tree)

Declension

  • A poetic nominative arbōs is often found. Sextus Pompeius Festus documents archaic (Old Latin) variants arbosem, arboses.
  • A rare locative singular arborī is attested.

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 533: “un albero” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Buchi, Éva, Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008–) “*/ˈarbor-e/”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.

Further reading

  • “arbor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “arbor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • arbor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • arbor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *arawar, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈar.vər/

Noun

arbor n (genitive arbae, nominative plural arbann)

  1. grain
  2. (in the plural) crops

Inflection

Descendants

  • Irish: arbhar
  • Manx: arroo
  • Scottish Gaelic: arbhar

Mutation

References

  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “arbar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

  • arbol

Etymology

Inherited from Latin arborem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaɾboɾ/, /ˈaɾbol/

Noun

arbor m (plural arbores)

  1. tree
    • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 1v. b.
    • Idem, f. 42v. b.

Descendants

  • Ladino: arvolé, arvol
  • Spanish: árbol, árbor
    • → Basque: arbola
    • → Cebuano: arbol
    • → Sicilian: àrbulu, àrvulu

Romanian

Noun

arbor m (plural arbori)

  1. Alternative form of arbore

Tagalog

Alternative forms

  • albor

Etymology

Backslang of Spanish robar (“to rob; to steal”).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈʔaɾboɾ/, [ˈʔaɾ.boɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾboɾ
  • Syllabification: ar‧bor

Noun

arbor (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇ᜔ᜊᜓᜇ᜔) (slang, back slang)

  1. act of claiming something to be of one's possesion; dibs
    Synonyms: angkin, kuha, kikil
  2. (by extension) act of borrowing
    Synonym: hiram

Derived terms

Further reading

  • Zorc, R. David, San Miguel, Rachel (1993) Tagalog Slang Dictionary‎[2], Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN

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