sorbus

== English == === Etymology === From the genus name. === Noun === sorbus (plural sorbuses) (botany) Any plant of the genus Sorbus. == Esperanto == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈsorbus/ Rhymes: -orbus Syllabification: sor‧bus === Verb === sorbus conditional of sorbi == Latin == === Etymology === Unknown. Pokorny links Russian соробали́на (sorobalína), сорбали́на (sorbalína, “rose hip, blackberry”) and Lithuanian serbentà, serbeñtas (“redcurrant, blackcurrant”) and others (also comparing the verb sir̃bti, sir̃pti (“to ripen”)), reconstructing Proto-Indo-European *ser-, *ser-bʰ- (“red, reddish-brown”). De Vaan maintains that this connection is possible, but adds that the meaning of the root would not be “red”. Instead, these words may be derived from a common non-Indo-European substrate source *sVrb- (“berry”). Probably unrelated to sorbeō (“to drink, suck up, slurp”). === Noun === sorbus f (genitive sorbī); second declension sorb; service tree; Sorbus domestica ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== sorbum ==== Descendants ==== → Translingual: Sorbus Italian: sorbo (“tree of the genus Sorbus”) Romanian: sorb (“wild service tree”) Spanish: suerbo Vulgar Latin: *sorbea, *sorba → Albanian: shurbë Old English: syrfe Middle English: serve, serves pl English: service ⇒ service tree, serviceberry Old French: *sorba Middle French: sorbe → English: sorb ⇒ sorb apple French: sorbe Galician: sorba → Greek: σουρβιά (sourviá) → Albanian: survë Italian: sorba (“rowan”) ⇒ sorbola (“sorb apple, sorb”) Old Occitan: sorba Portuguese: sorva (“rowan; cow tree”) Spanish: serba ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *sorbāria (“tree of the genus Sorbus: service tree, rowan, whitebeam, mountain ash”) Middle French: sorbier French: sorbier Galician: sorbeira (“sorb; wild service tree; rowan; gooseberry”) Portuguese: sorveira (“rowan”) === References === === Further reading === “sorbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “sorbus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.