viburnum

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin vīburnum. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /vɪˈbɜː(ɹ)nəm/, /vaɪˈbɜː(ɹ)nəm/ === Noun === viburnum (plural viburnums or (rare) viburna) Any of many shrubs and trees, of the genus Viburnum, native to the Northern Hemisphere that have showy clusters of flowers. ==== Synonyms ==== arrowwood ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Alternative forms === vīburnus, vīburna === Etymology === Unknown, possibly Etruscan. Compare laburnum, alaternus, basterna, lacerna, santerna, pincerna, clarnus, all strongly suspected to be from Etruscan or a related language, although the sound sequence also occurs in words trusted to be native like sturnus, spinturnīx, cōturnīx. Note also the suffix -urnus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wiːˈbʊr.nũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [viˈbur.num] === Noun === vīburnum n (genitive vīburnī); second declension viburnum ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: viorn French: viorne Italian: viburno === References === “viburnum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “viburnum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press