ebulum

== Latin == === Alternative forms === ebulus === Etymology === Unknown, but likely related to Old Prussian addle (“spruce, fir”), Latvian egle (“spruce, fir”), Lithuanian ẽglė (“spruce”), Proto-Slavic *ȅdlь (“spruce”) (from Proto-Balto-Slavic *edlis), potentially from Proto-Indo-European *h₁edʰ-l-. Perhaps (though less likely) related to Gaulish odocos (“elder”), whence Late Latin odecus, odicus and Old High German attuh, attah (“dwarf-elder, danewort”) (modern German Attich), from the same root *h₁edʰ-; however, Pokorny's derivation of this term from a root meaning “pointy” (stechend in the original German) is very unlikely. In the absence of a solid Indo-European etymology, it may thus be a European substrate word. === Noun === ebulum n (genitive ebulī); second declension The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: red elderberry (Sambucus racemosa) danewort, dwarf elder (Sambucus ebulus) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Derived terms ==== ebulīnus ==== Descendants ==== === References === Buchi, Éva; Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008–), “*/ˈɛβul-u/”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française. === Further reading === “ebulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ebulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "ebulum", 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) “ebulum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.