different between mayflower vs arbutus

English

Etymology

May +? flower

Noun

mayflower (plural mayflowers)

1. Any of several plants that flower in May - especially the hawthorn (in Britain) and the trailing arbutus (in the US).

Synonyms

• mayweed

Translations

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

From translingual Arbutus, from Latin arbutus.

Noun

arbutus (plural arbutuses)

1. A flowering plant in the genus Arbutus: the strawberry tree.
   • 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 10

     Many nights, though autumnal mists were spread around, I passed under an ilex - many times I have supped on arbutus berries and chestnuts, making a fire, gypsy-like, on the ground […]

2. Epigaea repens, the mayflower, the trailing arbutus.
   • 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds

     Ah, who is he,—on whom young men and maidens look with pitying eye? to whom the old man lifts his hat, and little children cease from their sports as he passes, and quietly slip the innocent daisy, or the sweet-scented arbutus into his hand, which they have culled from the wide commons, where, they have been told, the good Sea-flower loved to stray.

3. Arbute; the wood of the strawberry tree.

Translations

Anagrams

• Subartu

Latin

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ar.bu.tus/, [?ärb?t??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ar.bu.tus/, [??rbut?us]

Noun

arbutus m (genitive arbut?); second declension

1. strawberry tree

   Synonym: uned?

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

• arbuteus
• arbutum

Descendants

• Galician: érbedo, albedro
• Mozarabic: yérbato
• Occitan: arboça, arboç
  • ? French: arbouse, arbousier
• Old Spanish: alborco
• Portuguese: êrvedo

References

• arbutus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• arbutus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• arbutus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• arbutus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Genaust, Helmut (1996) , “Árbutus”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (in German), 3^rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, ?ISBN, page 73a