different between orchard vs arboretum

English

Etymology

From Middle English orchard, orcherd, from Old English or?eard, ort?eard, a compound of *ort (probably from Proto-Germanic *urtiz, a dissimilated variant of Proto-Germanic *wurt- (“wort (plant)”), later incorrectly associated with Latin hortus (“garden”)) + ?eard (see yard). Cognate with Swedish örtagård (“herb garden”), Gothic ???????????????????????????????????????? (aurtigards, “orchard”), Old High German orz?n (“to cultivate a field”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???.t??d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???.t??d/
• Hyphenation: or?chard

Noun

orchard (plural orchards)

1. A garden or an area of land for the cultivation of fruit or nut trees.
2. The trees themselves cultivated in such an area.

Synonyms

• (land for cultivation of fruit or nut trees): grove, plantation, woodlet

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Darroch

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin arbor?tum (“place with trees growing, plantation of trees”), from arbor (“tree”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??(?)b???i?t?m/

Noun

arboretum (plural arboretums or arboreta)

1. A place where many varieties of tree are grown for research, educational, and ornamental purposes.

Translations

Czech

Noun

arboretum n

1. arboretum

Finnish

Noun

arboretum

1. arboretum

Declension

Synonyms

• puulajipuisto

French

Noun

arboretum m (plural arboretums)

1. arboretum

Latin

Etymology

From arbor (“tree”) +? -?tum (“grove or plantation”), with suffix extended via rebracketing. Cf. the primary arbustum (for *arbos-tum).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ar.bo?re?.tum/, [ärb???e?t????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ar.bo?re.tum/, [?rb?????t?um]

Noun

arbor?tum n (genitive arbor?t?); second declension

1. (colloquial) arboretum, plantation of trees.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

References

• arboretum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• arboretum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• arboretum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette