different between laburnum vs alburnum

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

Latin laburnum

Noun

laburnum (plural laburnums)

1. Any tree of genus Laburnum. They have bright yellow flowers and are poisonous.
   • 1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Collins, 1998, Chapter 11,

     The trees began to come fully alive. The larches and birches were covered with green, the laburnums with gold.

Translations

Anagrams

• alburnum

Latin

Etymology

Probably from a Mediterranean substrate language or Etruscan.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /la?bur.num/, [??ä?b?rn???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /la?bur.num/, [l??burnum]

Noun

laburnum n (genitive laburn?); second declension

1. plant of the genus Laburnum

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

References

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

English

Etymology

From Latin alburnum, from albus (“white”), since it is often paler in color than the heartwood.

Noun

alburnum (usually uncountable, plural alburnums)

1. sapwood; the soft, newer wood in the trunk of a tree found between the bark and the hardened heartwood.

Translations

Anagrams

• laburnum

Latin

Etymology

From albus (“white”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /al?bur.num/, [ä???b?rn???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /al?bur.num/, [?l?burnum]

Noun

alburnum n (genitive alburn?); second declension

1. alburnum; sapwood

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

• English: alburnum
• Italian: alburno
• Portuguese: alburno, borne
• Spanish: alburno

References

• alburnum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• alburnum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• alburnum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• “alburnum” on page 93/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)