different between herbarium vs herber

English

Etymology

From Latin herb?rium. Doublet of arbor.

Noun

herbarium (plural herbariums or herbaria)

1. A collection of dried plants or parts of plants.
2. A building or institution where such a collection is kept.

Coordinate terms

• fungarium
• hortorium
• xylarium

Related terms

• herbarial

Translations

See also

• arboretum
• botanical garden

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin herb?rium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???r?ba?.ri.?m/
• Hyphenation: her?ba?ri?um
• Rhymes: -a?ri?m

Noun

herbarium n (plural herbaria)

1. herbarium
2. herbarium book

Latin

Alternative forms

• herb.

Etymology

From herb?rius (“botanist”), from herba (“grass, vegetation”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /her?ba?.ri.um/, [h?r?bä??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /er?ba.ri.um/, [?r?b???ium]

Noun

herb?rium n (genitive herb?ri? or herb?r?); second declension

1. a herbarium; a collection of dried plants
2. a herbarium (a written work on botany)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Related terms

Descendants

References

• herb?rium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• herbarium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• herb?r?um in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 741/3

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

herbarium n (definite singular herbariet, indefinite plural herbarier, definite plural herbaria or herbariene)

1. herbarium

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

herbarium n (definite singular herbariet, indefinite plural herbarium, definite plural herbaria)

1. herbarium

English

Etymology

From Middle English herber, erber (“pleasure garden; herb garden”). Doublet of arbour.

Noun

herber (plural herbers)

1. (rare) A garden in which herbs and vegetables are grown; a herbarium

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

herber

1. inflection of herb:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Middle English

Alternative forms

• erber, erbaire, erbare, herbier
• arber, arbere (influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”))
• herbergh, herbarwe (influenced by herberwe (“harbor”))

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman herber, erber (“garden”), from erbe (“grass, herb”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?b??r/, /?r?be?r/, /??rb?r/, /??rb-/

Noun

herber (plural herbers)

1. pleasure garden
   • c. 1300, The Thrush and the Nightingale [Digby], line 98:

2. herb garden
   • c. 1400, Kyng Alisaunder [Laud Misc.], line 331:

3. vegetable garden
   • c. 1450, The Book of Vegecye of Dedes of Knyghthode [Douce], (trans. of Vegetius, De re militari), line 98b:

4. (figuratively) garden of the heart; garden of philosophy; a religious house
   • c. 1400, William Langland, Piers Plowman [Laud Misc.], line 16.15:

5. arbor (shady place for sitting)
   • c. 1330, The Seven Sages of Rome [Auchinlek], line 76:

6. grassy area
   • c. 1425, The Seven Sages of Rome [Cotton Galba], line 628:

Descendants

• English: herber
• Scots: herber, herbere, herbar, herbare

References

• “herber, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.