different between plumber vs pinus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French plummier (French plombier); from Latin plumb?rius, from plumbum (“lead or lead shot”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pl?m?/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pl?m?/
• Rhymes: -?m?(r)
• Homophone: Plummer

Noun

plumber (plural plumbers)

1. One who works in or with lead.
2. One who furnishes, fits, and repairs pipes and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage.
   1. One who installs piping for potable and waste water.
3. A person who investigates or prevents leaks of information
4. (Britain, informal) In the Royal Navy, an apprentice, a boy aged 16 to 18, who is trained in technical skills at the Dockyard Schools to become an artificer.
5. (medicine, slang) A urologist.
   • 1958, Father Provincial Assumption B.V.M. Monastery, The Chronicle (volumes 12-13, page 39)

     […] began the month with an operation at St. Joseph Hospital in Aurora, Ill. His surgeon, by the way, was a "plumber” – urologist.

   • 1983, Toni Martin, How to Survive Medical School (page 127)

     Within surgery, the "cleaner" specialties, such as cardiac and neurosurgery, outrank the plumbers (urologists) and proctologists.

Derived terms

Related terms

• plumbing

Descendants

• ? Irish: pluiméir
• ? Welsh: plymer

Translations

References

• Corpun.com, a specialized website on Corporal Punishments [1]

Anagrams

• replumb

Latin

Verb

plumber

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of plumb?

English

Etymology

From the genus name. Doublet of pine.

Noun

pinus (plural pinuses)

1. (botany) Any member of the genus Pinus; a pine.
   • 1839, J. C. Loudon, The Gardener's Magazine (page 420)

     I have been invited to see the garden of Baron Zanoli, situated on the high road from Monza to Milan, in which I am told there are fine exotic trees and shrubs, and especially a rich collection of pinuses.

   • 1853, George Greenwood, The tree-lifter (page 265)

     As the generality of pinuses grow by nature into magnificent and gigantic forest-trees, they should, I think, be planted in our parks as well as in our flower-gardens, shrubberies, and lawns.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“fat”). Cognate with Sanskrit ???? (pitu, “sap, juice, resin”), English fat.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pi?.nus/, [?pi?n?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pi.nus/, [?pi?nus]

Noun

p?nus f (variously declined, genitive p?n?s or p?n?); fourth declension, second declension

1. pine tree
2. pinewood, or a thing made of such wood
3. lance, spear
4. wreath of pine leaves
5. pine forest, pineland

Declension

Fourth-declension noun or second-declension noun.

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• pinus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pinus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pinus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette