different between copse vs arbor

English

Etymology

1578, from coppice, by contraction, originally meaning “small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?ps/
• Rhymes: -?ps
• Homophone: cops

Noun

copse (plural copses)

1. A thicket of small trees or shrubs.
   • 1578, Rembert Dodoens (author) and Henry Lyte (translator), A niewe Herball or Historie of Plantes page 57:

     Agrimonie groweth in places not tylled, in rough stone mountaynes, in hedges and Copses, and by waysides.

   • 1798, William Wordsworth, Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, lines 9–15 (for syntax):

     The day is come when I again repose

     Here, under this dark sycamore, and view

     These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard tufts,

     Which at this season, with their unripe fruits,

     Are clad in one green hue, and lose themselves

     ’Mid groves and copses.

   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth (hardback edition), p19:

     Striking the highway beyond the little copse she skirted the dark iron palings enclosing Hare.

Synonyms

• coppice

Translations

See also

• bush, bushes, forest, mott, orchard
• stand, thicket, wood, woods

Verb

copse (third-person singular simple present copses, present participle copsing, simple past and past participle copsed)

1. (transitive, horticulture) To trim or cut.
2. (transitive, horticulture) To plant and preserve.

Further reading

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Copse”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume II (C), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 977, column 1.

Anagrams

• -scope, OPSEC, Pecos, copes, scope, ?-scope, ?scope

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(r)b?(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle English arbour, erbour, from Old French erbier (“field, meadow, kitchen garden”), from erbe (“grass, herb”), from Latin herba (“grass, herb”) (English herb). (Compare Late Latin herb?rium, although erbier is possibly an independent formation.) The spelling was influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”).

Alternative forms

• arbour (chiefly British)

Noun

arbor (plural arbors or arbores)

1. A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.
2. A grove of trees.

Derived terms

• Ann Arbor

Related terms

• arboreal
• arboreous
• arborescent
• arboretum
• arbor vitae
• herb

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French arbre (“tree, axis”), spelling influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”).

Noun

arbor (plural arbors or arbores)

1. An axis or shaft supporting a rotating part on a lathe.
2. A bar for supporting cutting tools.
3. A spindle of a wheel.

Translations

Anagrams

• Barro, borra

Latin

Alternative forms

• arb?s

Etymology

By rhotacism from Old Latin arb?s, from Proto-Italic *arð?s, cognate with arduus (“high”): the meaning is "high plant"; the Indo-European /d?/ was shifted to /b/. From the Proto-Indo-European *h?erd?- (“high, to grow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ar.bor/, [?ärb?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ar.bor/, [??rb?r]

Noun

arbor f (genitive arboris); third declension

1. a tree

   (specifically with the genitive of the species)

2. (metonymically) something made from a tree, of wood

   Synonym: m?lus

   Synonyms: iaculum, p?lum

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3. (metonymically) the polypus (imagined to have arms like the branches of a tree)

Declension

• A poetic nominative arb?s is often found. Sextus Pompeius Festus documents archaic (Old Latin) variants arbosem, arboses.

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

See also

• p?mus
• silva

Noun

arbor

1. vocative singular of arbor

Further reading

• arbor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

References

• arbor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• arbor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• arbor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• arbor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *arawar, from Proto-Indo-European *h?erh?-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ar.v?r/

Noun

arbor n (genitive arbae, nominative plural arbann)

1. grain
2. (in the plural) crops

Inflection

Descendants

• Irish: arbhar
• Manx: arroo
• Scottish Gaelic: arbhar

Mutation

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “arbar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• arbol

Etymology

From Latin arbor, arborem, from Old Latin arb?s, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?erd?- (“high, to grow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ar.?or]

Noun

arbor m (plural arbores)

1. tree
   • c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 1v. b.

     ally delát ebró. es mót mãbre. e ouo y grát arbor. e fue enzina. ala rayz daq?l arbor estaua abraã.

     There, past Hebron, is the hill Mamre, where there was a great oak tree. Abraham was [sitting] on the root of that tree.

   • Idem, f. 42v. b.

     e crebantaredes todas cibdades en ca?telladas entodos los arbores fermo?os todas las fontanas del agua cerraredes. entodas las buenas se?as abatredes […]

     And you shall defeat all cities and fortified towns, and fell all the good trees, and seal all the springs of water and ruin all the good pieces of land.

Descendants

• Ladino: arvolé, arvol
• Spanish: árbol, árbor
  • ? Basque: arbola
  • ? Cebuano: arbol
  • ? Sicilian: àrbulu, àrvulu

Romanian

Noun

arbor m (plural arbori)

1. Alternative form of arbore