alburnum

== English == === Etymology === From Latin alburnum, from albus (“white”), since it is often paler in color than the heartwood. === Noun === alburnum (usually uncountable, plural alburnums) sapwood; the soft, newer wood in the trunk of a tree found between the bark and the hardened heartwood. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === laburnum == Latin == === Etymology === From albus (“white”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aɫˈbʊr.nũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [alˈbur.num] === Noun === alburnum n (genitive alburnī); second declension alburnum; sapwood ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== English: alburnum Italian: alburno Portuguese: alburno, borne Spanish: alburno === References === “alburnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "alburnum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “alburnum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “alburnum” on page 93/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)