different between carpinus vs hornbeam

Latin

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *kh?er- (“hard”). See also carina and cerrus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kar.pi.nus/, [?kärp?n?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kar.pi.nus/, [?k?rpinus]

Noun

carpinus m (genitive carpin?); second declension

1. Hornbeam; European hornbeam; a variety of deciduous tree.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

References

• carpinus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• carpinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

c. 1570, from Old English horn + beam (“tree”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h??n?bi?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h??n?bim/

Noun

hornbeam (plural hornbeams)

1. A tree of the genus Carpinus, having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard, common along the banks of streams in the United States.
2. A hop hornbeam (Ostrya virginiana).
3. The wood of these trees.

Synonyms

• hornbeech, ironwood, musclewood

Hyponyms

• blue beech

Translations

See also

• hornbeam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Carpinus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Carpinus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

References

• hornbeam in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.